“People who ape divinity and charge others to teach them how to crawl slightly better — thus prohibiting such students from even standing up on their own — will, quite naturally, despise anyone who offers free lessons in flying. Almost invariably, the crawling teachers who complain loudest will invoke spiritual principles. Literally. They will warn their students of the ‘grave spiritual dangers’ of such arrogance, and turn to one another with sombre, knowing nods, as they agree themselves into another seven thousand years of chronic asshattery.”

— an a i