Life is one, but consciousness is divided. It is the stress of the divided consciousness that every visionary is seeking to deal with. - Robert Anton Wilson

He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on.

Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.