Now That the Parasites Have Consumed the Host....

The parasites have been feasting for so many decades that they've lost the ability to discern reality: their survival now depends on feeding on other parasites.

Let's conduct a thought experiment. First, set aside all the usual economic-ideological certainties, mythologies and filters--capitalism and free markets are the fountains of endless wealth, socialism is the answer, etc.--and then look at our culture not as a monetary-economic machine but as an ecosystem of parasites and hosts. From this perspective con…