“Like tyrants, governments, and legal systems, they are desperate for extreme power and magical force precisely because they are or have become, over time, too stupid to manipulate even the most basic structures of their own intelligence. This stupidity is the glaring result of the acquisition of technologies, which is to say: powers.

Anyone who would answer such desperation for self-destruction with grants of power or magic would have to be even more stupid than the recipients.”

— an anonymous informant