...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services. ...Everything has its price. - Carroll Quigley

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

...I offended some of you by saying you had been brainwashed. This is not an insult; it's a simple statement of fact. When any infant is born and socialized in a society, even if he is to become a very mature individual, he has been brainwashed. ...given a structure for categorizing his experience and a system of values applied to the structure of categories.

Western ideology believed that the world was good because it was made by God in six days and that at the end of each day He looked at His work and said that it was good.