Do as thou wills.

“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah**.**

Does our world, stagnating in it's lack of purpose and vision, give rise to the increasing push to feed on one another? The are two voices shouting at present. One says: "Do as 'we' say!" While the other says: "No, leave me alone."

I cannot help but see that the moralizing busy bodies and would be dictators are all moving towards open violence, and away from subtle violence. The subtle feeding grew intolerable and people began to push back, and thus the subtlety is being discarded. You will accept the feeding quietly or you will be consumed viciously. It is understandable, that those prime energy eaters wish to maintain their imbalance of power, but fascinating to watch the truth of that become exposed.