The second greatest trick evil ever played on us was to convince us that it was necessary. They have become too powerful to not be held responsible and the orde

The second greatest trick evil ever played on us was to convince us that it was necessary. They have become too powerful to not be held responsible and the order they were ostensibly intended to preserve has disintegrated as a direct consequence of their failure to allow it to evolve naturally, imo. Their capabilities and their influences on our own democratic processes are about as welcome as leftover minefields from forgotten conflicts, especially as many of them retire to write memoirs and mug for television presenters. They were a 20th century artifact of the nation state (which they have forfeited) and by all popular accounts now they seem to form a kind of seedy post-national shadow government engaged in protecting sympathetic capital flows. As ever it was, perhaps, but we shouldn't be arguing about whether or not their behavior is appropriate so much as whether we should tolerate their continued existence at all. Of course they're an easy straw man, but being the key source of deception in the world is neither necessary or sympathetic.