he man that is will shadow<br />The man that <a href='simulacra.html'>pretends
to be</a>.</q>
<cite>T.S. Eliot, The Rock </cite>

<img src='../media/refs/immortan.jpg' alt='Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road'/>

<q>He drops water onto hordes of irradiated wastrels like a Roman emperor
showering plebs with bread and circuses. "Do not become addicted to water," he
cautions them.</q>

<p>Preservation of the sick life of medically dependent people in an unhealthy
environment became the principal business of t