what goes on in the suited mind:
We've created the most fucked-up infra-civilization in history. Never mind the charlatans at M$; we understand their salivation ever since Pavlov -- but the self-duplicity! An actual intentional trade of one's own (formerly called, when it existed - integrity) for the most superficial imaginable sense of security..
No wonder that the most rapacious call selves compassionate (an unknown word - what could it hurt?) and the most reactionary settle on conservative! meaning, simply:
I want to conserve what I've extorted - and keep adding more of Yours to the hoard.
Maybe those guys are right.. (only it's really The Banal Satan, guys)
Die Infidel!!.. Wait.. I... I've got *mail*!
(sure glad none of this is real)