“It is only under the aegis of certain forms of agreement that individual human beings become potentially intelligent. Community is the necessary precursor, and this can be simulated or destroyed.

Thus we have fierce competition over something only a few are ordinarily aware of as an asset: their agreement. And it comes in as many flavors as there are species of profit. Or loss. As when they utilize this power with and for each other instead of the fictions we sell and convert them to. Or against those very fictions and agendas.”

— an anonymous informant