What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing? - Norman Spinrad

Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same.

True civilization consists precisely of conventions, rituals, and modes of oblique communication whereby the chaos within and the void without may be expressed and contained within the harmonious consensus of shared social objectivity, thus maintaining our bubble of crafted reality, the necessary illusion.

For truth be told, I was tormented by perceptions and their corollary temptation which from a social definition rendered me unsane, though from a more absolute viewpoint what I might be said to have been suffering from was an excess of insight.