The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. - Aldous Huxley

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.