The vested interests encourage the growth of imperialist wars and irrationality because both serve to divert the discontent of the masses away from t… - Carroll Quigley

Another aspect of the nineteenth century propaganda system is the increasing emphasis upon material desires.

The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science. ...I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.