That human beings have become redundant components in the integrated systems and symbolic economies that initially developed around the requirements to support those same human beings has by this point in history become an astounding failure of intellect, responsibility and maturity. The rationales which justify the continuing existence of the pre-eminent structures and systems of the world are also those that can from within that very same logic and rationale decry vast swathes of humanity as excess, as cost and as living burden and waste product.