Black Man / Thirteen

It seems feasible that over the coming century human nature will be scientifically remodelled. If so, it will be done haphazardly, as an up shot of struggles in the murky realm where big business, organised crime and the hidden parts of government vie for control.

—John Gray, Straw Dogs

Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

—Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain