H.G. Wells
The Time Machine

The Eloi initially controlled the world but slowly, eventually they became too content and complacent as a species and the Morlocks feasted on them like sheep.

Beauty is still in the eye of the beholder.

“In paranoia, the primary function of the enemy is to provide a definition of the real that makes
paranoia necessary. We must therefore begin to suspect the paranoid structure itself as a device by which consciousness maintains the polarity of self and nonself, thus preserving the concept of
identity.” LEO BERSANI