The following diatribe was a glorious disquisition on institutions of power being no better than kings, and how humans by their very nature would mutilate even holy, sacred words if it meant they could gain power and accrue material benefit for themselves, and that while the impulse to conquer and consume was indeed also a part of human nature, and indeed part of the nature of all living beings, there was a moral obligation for all people to interrogate such impulses within themselves, or else risk consuming and exploiting even their fellow humans—
