Consider – the western system of US ‘democracy’, especially in relation to the rest of the planet, is essentially parasitic – the system extant in China, in relation to the rest of the world is essentially symbiotic. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru’ narrow cracks in his cave”—William Blake (1757–1827)