“We are attempting to guide a nation which is existing in what we might properly understand as the virtual 23rd century (far ahead of our existing intelligence) with institutions whose structures are from and for situations properly belonging to the 18th century. What this means is that if we do not reform our institutions with all possible urgency, their self-interested skeletal remains will carry us not only to the bottom of our developmental potential, but to our graves. And they will take most of the remaining animalian biosphere with them.”

— an anonymous informant