“It’s like a kind of aggressive parasitic slug, that slides to the top of the pile of relational and cognitive diseases on the slippery slope of human attention and aggrandizement. Once there, it masquerades wildly as heroic, beautiful, true, worthy, and noble. In this way, the virtues are reduced to the husks of their nature. Once this is accomplished, any parasite can now find ample succour in nearly all human minds and relationships. And this is how parasites are elected gods — in your lives, minds and world.”

— an anonymous informant