The sophist owns the thinking of society.
His song seems right, as if sung by angels.
His effect is the sword of war and the murder of millions.
But who can cut through the sophistry that still rules?

The story, Drilling Holes into Sophistry, comprises a chapter of the novel, Winning without Victory, by Rolf A. F. Witzsche, which is Episode 3 of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose. The series is designed to explore the great renaissance principle, the Principle of Universal Love, the foundation for civilization. The fictional story, Drilling Holes into Sophistry, plays in the mid-1980s. In unfolds as a dialog assessing the present challenge for mankind to gain its freedom from the countless forms of mental slavery that cultural warfare has imposed throughout the period following World War II.

The cover scene is one of Hitler's several Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg, Germany, prior to World War II.