Quicksilver

by Dean Koontz

Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated. No one seemed to remember the lessons of history—or cared to learn them.

“People used to take that Orwell book, 1984, to be a warning. Now they see it as an inspiration.