The best way to rob a bank would be to conduct a full-scale masquerade where you appeared as the police, a bomb squad, and a SWAT unit. In other words, mimicry of authority coupled with invention of threat.

And this, it turns out, is precisely the way we are robbed… of our humanity, our nature, our imagination, the lion’s share of our potential intelligence, our creativity, the benefits of our work, our relational assets, our social opportunities, and our health.