Both incentives and punishments elicit powerful responses.
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
"A good picture book should work without any words at all."
We are all different, but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt and survive.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.