"...In times of darkness, the leaders of the countries of the world are generally individual expressions of the worst of us. In times of darkness, the ability to see is generally compromised by the attraction for those activities with the most dangerous consequences. In times of darkness, it is dark. What is most praiseworthy in times of light are viewed with a greater contempt in times of darkness. Up appears to be down. All of what is really true appears to be false and all of what is false appears to be. In times of darkness, most people will eat shit if you serve it to them warm. In times of darkness, the greatest danger is the people who believe the lies. They are the army of darkness, moving in the darkness of their mind. That mind is lit with a false light; the kind of thing you see in swamps. Swamps and the serene peaks of high mountains are all states of mind and dream settings for allegorical plays that can well move from one to the other or anywhere else that can be imagined as a stage..."
http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2010/10/kings-of-short-run-in-land-of-flaming.html