At the present time we all are confined in concentration camps called nations. We are forced to obey laws to which we have not consented, and to pay exorbitant taxes to maintain the prisons in which we are confined. The pretext that there is any measure of consent involved or benefit received is wearing very thin indeed. The american people did not even know the atom bomb existed. Still less they were consulted as to wether or not it should be used. Thus, one of the most disastrous decisions in human history was made by a few incompetent, ill-informed, and ill-mentioned men.

w.s. burroughs, The Job – Interviews with w.s. burroughs