On The Devil

There's the expression, "The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist."

Sea more likely the greater trick would be convincing people that expression were true. Then you could kick back and watch humanity point blame anywhere but themselves or happenstance every time things got a little unfriendly.

Paranoia running rampant, they would descend to the next logical level, believing that that was an even greater trick, perpetuated to obfuscate maniacal plans and dark influences. Recursively, it would form a terrible, terrible loop.

Truly, the greatest trick the Devil could play would be to rise and confront humanity only after we gave control of our civilization to the logicians.