this one belongs to the ortra

The web needs serving, and the its goblins are in high demand . 

The barbarian hordes are at the gates ..er. loadbalancers !! with eyes wild from the pain of their mundane existence, an affliction not of the body, but of the soul, they are hungover from their charades of being , their faces empty, hearts silently aching from the denied connection and engagement with anything real, for they live in the mediated world of Man, where they live fro what seems forever, caffeine to keep working , pills to keep from dying, forever straining at the juggernauts of the economy, being counted as the faithful, and in the body of the successful state, paying taxes and being ‘represented’, for all human polity is a farm, and people are its crop.

I mean, Retail Therapy, baby!

They are in the house, grubby mitts all over the merchandise, pawing and persusing, with no promise of purchase, a desultory masturbation , repeated daily, the defining characteristic of my generation.

a word on the "ortrta"

it stands, of course, for 'the one ring to rule them all'

and if such a ring could exist, its power wouldn't exist on its own, but would arise from the nature of the ones it has impact on.

the ring is none other than the social contract, and under its tyranny, we have made the earth a place where none can escape it, no matter how far you go into the wilderness.

Groups have always formed around  getting , or avoiding . and the tiger-bush-bias of the brain is the fact of nature exploited forever, to create an  us-vs-them  dynamic . 

fear and terror is the reason for the base of the Maslow hierarchy to be what it is.

and this forms the strongest catalyst for a group to form

(an implicit promise that the barbarians will be held at bay, and hint of a promise of gourmet food, fashionable clothes,   and the latest gadget. and an explicit depiction -not-promise of unlimitedness of babes.)

a formed group generates its own 'truths', and also achieves. and hereby all good and evil are formed.