The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated. . . The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered. . . The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.