“You can see the same thing in ordinary human relationships where the disease has gone all the way to the root of the tree. Ordinary developmental challenges are avoided at all costs, because the goal isn’t development, it is entrenchment, stasis, and domination. The result? Cyclic explosions of violence any time the environment provides a developmental challenge. Certainty instead of learning. Telling instead of listening. Utimatums and threats instead of cooperation. Violence instead of discovery. If this sounds like your nation or her institutions, the reason is simple: it stopped developing, and your development thus represents a clear and present danger to your ‘masters’. If you are funding those masters, you are capitalizing monsters and parasites against your own survival, intelligence, and future.”

— an anonymous informant