“Truly, you’re a stranger in a strange land—and the sooner you acknowledge this situation, the sooner you can begin developing an escape plan.” —Yours Truly
Setting the Stage: Grokking the Gameboard
The epigraph to this chapter, a self-quote lifted from the previous one, is a reference to Robert A. Heinlein’s 1961 novel STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, which is without a doubt a meditation on the World Cult, with numerous hard-hitting revelations such as: “Man is so built that he cannot imagine his own death. This leads to endless invention of religions.” |