Status Updates From الرجل في القلعة العالية

There is evil ! It's actual, like cement.

'We are absurd,' Mr Tagomi said, 'because we live by a five-thousand-year-old-book. We ask it questions as if it were alive. It is alive. As is the Christian Bible; many books are actually alive. Not in metaphoric fashion. Spirit animates it. Do you see?

And, he thought, I know why. They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness.

the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them

A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.