The critical challenges we now face are not a matter of one ideology against another, of one religion against another, of one philosophy against another, of one race against another, of one sexuality against another, of one culture against another, of one nationality against another, of one generation against another, of one ethnicity against another, of one class against another – ours is instead the struggle between those who have a conscience (and thus the capacity for love, compassion, empathy, and imagination) and those in whom conscience was either never bred, or never born. It is a struggle as old as humanity and different now only in the scale and reach of the consequences were we to lose, the emerging sociopathocracy then so deeply and widely entrenched that it would become effectively unassailable.