William Shakespeare has one of his characters propose, Let’s kill all the lawyers. He forgot to include the bureaucrats. - Andrew Fox

That's…that's a nightmarish scenario. Do you really think people would just… attack one another, as soon as the fences were gone? That they'd throw aside civil society so easily?"
"What 'civil society,' Leah? Your eight million inhabitants have never learned how to exist and thrive in a civil society—all they've known are clans, sheltered clans.

Psychologists claim the mind is incapable of imagining itself not existing, of mentally inhabiting its own extinction. Yet I can sense obliteration’s lackeys nibbling away at my edges, hungry mice eating the brown crusts of the bread of my being.

Thanks to my work, I know the type all too well. A malcontent, a refusenik. A grievance monger, quick as a scampering lemur to take offense. Such people make little sense to me.