In this transition from the Age of Authority to the Age of Experience, from Dependence to Independence, we face a struggle to disentangle ourselves from a parasitic system. This is a toxic system that destroys ecosystems, corrupts governments and legislators, weakens us to a state of craven dependency and fills our minds with paralysing visions of terror and fearful delusions. To this soulless system we are a means to an end and in this an end not of our own choosing. We are a resource to be used, managed and – above all – controlled; we are a number on a ledger, a unit of work, we feed it with our very lives - we are its food. We must stop supporting these toxic, corrupt, and corrupting systems, and start supporting better ones, or they will destroy every last one of us.