If you find acts of rape, assassination, torture, and malevolent stupidity inexplicable — or if you blame the perpetrators — you have failed to understand how these acts are generated.

We, the victims, and the perpetrators are actually all victims. But (usually) not of the perpetrators. We are the victims of something we can neither see, nor admit — the myths about meaning, value, power, possession and identity that currently drive our minds and cultures.