Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can’t feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations? - Daniel Suarez

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

The promise of eternal life is a threat unless you get to start over. The mythmakers knew that. They weren't dummies, man. … They were the ones who invented rhyme and meter—the programming language for human memory in preliterary civilizations. It was a cultural checksum—a mnemonic device. You couldn't fuck with the code or the rhymes didn't work; and if the rhymes didn't work, people noticed. And so the knowledge of a people was passed down intact. It was a shamanic code. If you fucked with the code, then society lost its collective mind. Smell me?

No, it’s better than alchemy — it’s science.