Look around. Do a little inventory of the systems and organizations and fields of human endeavor, from government and politics to academia and science, from international relations to global finance, from journalism to world media, from religion and spirituality and philosophy, and any other manmade system-of-systems you wish to consider. All you’ll see is fabrication and deception and delusion and a wholly carnivalesque madhouse of insidious distortion; a dark asylum.

Or maybe you’re an asylum-is-half-light person. Fair enough.