The Seduction of Power and Fear

I would have thought if any century ever taught a generation that we were unable to live with the consequences of things we've chosen to do, it would have been the 20th century. I worked in the University for 25 years and I would go around parroting what I thought Genesis was all about but nobody seemed particularly interested. It's partly because people are so seduced by the idea, well it's the conjunction of power and fear isn't it? We think like almost machines, we're very good at analyzing things but we can’t step back and let them work on us and a story has to work on you," he says.