There are families of colourful wasps, such as the Braconidae and lchneumonidae, that lay their eggs on or inside living creatures like caterpillars. aphids and spiders. Simultaneously, the wasps inject a toxin into their victims which paralyses them but does not kill. When the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the living prey, consuming the non-vital parts like fat and digestive organs first, keeping the vital organs like the heart and the central nervous system for the very last, in order to prolong the time for which their food remains fresh.’

We may try to console ourselves that such gruesome behaviour is limited to the “lower creatures”. But an analogous process of draining the substance from human communities has been refined to a conscious willed device for subsisting and prospering at the expense of others, leaving the “prey” depleted, exhausted and impoverished. The powerful, parasitical and predatory culture of the West has spread across the globe over the last five hundred years. In the process, it has sought to devour all other cultures and civilisations, expropriating their substance, draining their wealth, in order that it may itself grow in comfort and opulence. The toxin that it uses to mentally paralyse its victims is its claim of universality, unique validity and exclusiveness. At the same time, it has endeavoured to teach some of its victims the art of survival in imitation of its own imperatives. These are the Westernised “elites,” the internal parasites who prey on their own fellow species.

from the book Global Parasites
by Winin Pereira &Jeremy Seabrook

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
Potter Stewart
Supreme Court Justice (1966)