Criminal Virus

The criminal virus controls by occluding (putting us in a sort of half sleep) so that we do not see the living quality of this world, but see it as inert. Man reduced to automaton. The occlusion is self-perpetuating; it makes us unaware of it…

The process of thinking paradoxical thoughts is a pointer to something — a pointer to something which the “criminal virus” prefers us not to see. And this something to which the paradoxical process points, is itself paradoxical… ((Philip K Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch))