The relationship between democracy and autonomy is one that requires both a decentralization of power and local access to the tools that can empower people. Globalization creates a separation that results in centralized structures and hierarchies. Democracy, on the other hand, is a method that allows individuals to be self-reliant in political and economic autonomy.

 
Much has been written on the fact of corporate personhood, and how this status takes away the legal rights of actual humans. Here is another way of looking at corporate personhood as a kind of magical creation of an artificial being or summoning of a demon. This analogy emphasizes the fact that the act of giving corporations human legal rights is done through the various texts of laws and court decisions. These texts can be seen as a type of incantation that is divorced from material reality.

 
Here is an interesting yet simple introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos that was originally developed by H.P. Lovecraft. The fact that it is presented as a children's cartoon not only makes it funny for adults in an ironic way, but actually something that can be watched and appreciated by small children without frightening them.

 
Here is an interesting paper that expands on Deleuze's idea of the virtual and the actual. Deleuze stated that reality in itself is both the virtual possibilities and their actual manifestations. The human experience of reality is only of the actual, and it can be theorized that the human unconscious is only the virtual. The human interaction with reality, that involves this unconscious and experience, divides and reunites the virtual and actual that exist independently of human existence.