I mean, isn’t it so simple to believe that things are run by the greys, and that all we have to do is trade sufficient fetal tissue to them and then we can solve our technological problems, or isn’t it comforting to believe that the Jews are behind everything, or the Communist Party, or the Catholic Church, or the Mason’s. […] I believe that the truth of the matter is far more terrifying, that the real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. You know, you don’t understand Monica, you don’t understand Netanyahu- it’s because No. Body. Is in control.

• Terrence McKenna on conspiritorial thinking