Some of my faves

authors

Lev Grossman
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Bill Bryson
Steven Pinker
Yuval Noah Harari
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jorge Amado

anyway,
Trump's troops (a certain ring to it)
Biden-Schumer-Pelosi (let's see what happens!)
carabinieri with carbines
G-D: getting drunk, good dracula, golden dawn,
  google drive, going dark, Grateful Dead, grave danger
tires (vehicle, drowsy), tyre (biblical city), entirely
star wars death star, battlestar galactica
son/sun, I am the light, conscious light, son of god/man
I can't breathe and icbm
US approaching 4 million covid cases
atm, assassin, thrill killer, mass murderer
   money, making a killing (dim mak)

matrix (movie) metaphor:  stability, balancing the equation
competing programs, code, algorithms
    please remember, this is fiction
(I met a guy who thought he was Neo, lol)

madness
we're all mad, but some of us are more than others -me
   AI, absolutely insane.  Jesse is Isai, in spanish, lol
we're all equal, but some are more equal than others -orwell
the fundamental delusion of humanity... -Yasutani Roshi
when dealing with the insane.... -Hesse
madness is doing the same thing... -Einstein
if god hears you, if you hear god... -Szasz
those who god hates he first makes insane... -longfellow
in an insane world, only the insane are sane -akira Kurosawa
we're all born mad.  some remain so. -Samuel Beckett

crazy sexy cool -tlc
mad crazy insane (mci), hey mickey you're so fine
insane in the membrane -cypress hill
insane clown posse
no we're never gonna survive unless... -seal
crazy in love, beyonce
shine on you crazy diamond -Pink Floyd
gnarls barkley (crazy)

mad, cracked magazines
you are what you eat (nuts)
ghost in a shell
   (soul in a body)
   (books and movies and roles can be shells, too)

wikipedia, schizophrenia (the scientific consensus)
hearing voices movement (alternative points of view)
John carpenter's vampires, telepathic link

some other thoughts
telepathy, entanglement of minds, spooky action at a distance, soulmates, collective unconscious, corporate group-think, possessed, borg, hive mind, master of puppets, mind control, hypnosis, morpheus the god of dreams, wordless transmission, enlightenment, on the same wavelength, mined mind, Grateful Dead logo (red/blue zap, like Harry Potter, too), psychic electroshock, head shocks, brain zaps, reward and punishment, conditioning, price of true freedom, do you not know that you are not your own? -bible (1 corinthians 6:19), god hears prayer, never cease praying - bible (1 Thessalonians 5:16).  Jedis and the force (disturbances in the force), going mental, vibes, great minds think alike, nonconformity, (stupid minds think alike, too?), insanely sane, sanely insane.

God as author, programmer, insane genius, making world in own image, love

(always and everywhere, penetrating, eternal, omnipresent)
angels, spreading their wings, and harping on shit