Peter Rulon-Miller

“Despite the dissociation caused by the frontal cortex and superego, and prohibitions against deep feeling levied by society, our bodies and minds find ways of exorcising the memory of trauma. This process brings about moodiness, physical illness, mental incompetence, moral deviance and even psychic derangement. However, as a few perceptive thinkers noted, our physical and psychological discomfiture occasionally spurs us to ask deeper questions about the health of the world. Dealing with personal sickness can awaken a desire to cure the greater problems we see around us. It can lead us to realize the underlying and unseen connections that exist between personal crises and those suffered by humankind as a whole.”
― Michael Tsarion, Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“We see from this that our desire to live morally is compromised by the relentless undermining of identity and will. And if happiness is not to be found by way of moral activity, we seek it wherever we can, finding it only spasmodically in fleeting sensual experiences. We soon become addicted to our banal pastimes since only through them do we find a measure of contentment.”
― Michael Tsarion, Dragon Mother: A New Look at the Female Psyche

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend