I confess I am a bit taken aback by your incomprehension of the reality of the situation. I guess I should expect by now you to twist matters to land responsibility for all wrongs onto the victims, because that has been your practice heretofore.

"Is it not due to ignorant muck, indoctrinated by cynical merchant scum with nonsense, imagining themselves inheritors of that which no man had any part in creating?"

It is not the fault of those misled by others that such bad things happen. It is indeed those mercantilists working with sociopathic thugs that are responsible for the repression of innovation and the greater prosperity we could enjoy not coming to fruition.

In your discussion of spiritual matters, as usual you mischaracterize my own statements - really, calling me Satanic is so obviously the opposite of the reality that I suspect even Satanists would scoff - and also the principles of the spiritual legacies under discussion. Finally, your refrain that sociopaths using thugs to compel obedience of their victims is somehow natural or proper is simply ignorant.

You are free to do this, or that, and if men threaten to beat you if you do one or the other, it is your sole option to acquiesce or refuse. That is the reality and the actual nature of the human condition, and it doesn't matter to reality whether you like it or not.