Mr. Whittier

“Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,” he says, “you’ll always be controlled by the world.”

“The same mistakes we made as cavemen,” says Mr. Whittier, “we still make.” So maybe we’re supposed to fight and hate and torture each other...

And Mr. Whittier said, “This is why Moses led the tribes of Israel into the desert. . .” Because those people had lived for generations as slaves. They’d learned to be helpless. To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of people how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.

Mr. Whittier says: “Maybe we’re living the exact way we’re meant to live.” Maybe our factory planet is processing our souls. . . just fine.