The land of the Angles had changed much since Stuart Lamour began his Phase IV treatments.Through the grand mechanics of financial inequality, decreased belief in a society, and the release of an infectious virus the ruling classes had in a few short weeks successfully brought about the rule of irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a consumerist infected population.

By very effectively washing their hands of any responsibility, and blaming a moral decline, the government had created the perfect environment for their feeder friends to profit from this collapse of society and empathy for other human beings the machine & virus had created. They spoke of tradition and an age of values, but denied all responsibility.

As Stuart drifted through the hamlets and villages he once knew he found them unrecognisable. Characterful town squares had been replaced by vast temples of consumerism in a mass drive to modernism, with the inevitable outcome of homogenisation. Consumers much retorted freedom of choice, through monetary economies of scale, became a mechanism for global parasites to suck life blood from local communities.

Ning – Machine

The populous had been profitably trained to fear, desire, to want and to vacuously consume. Mankind’s fears and desires had overshadow his needs. Society no longer existed, only the individual.

These infected lifeless individuals now clawed at the doors of global brand glass cash collectors doors, desperate to consume the latest flesh-made-product that would fulfill a deep unconscious emptiness which drove them, and finally sate their hunger….

…until the next product was marketed.

Stuart could feel Stormbringer’s dark mass pulling to drink of the chaos machine from which he was born, and was now made real.

Rolling Stones – Jigsaw Puzzle

The strange psychosis now infecting all of Angles left Stuart feeling very much outside of the Molasses who in fear de-humanise the others that, but for the grace of the gods, could be any one of us.

Stuart sat on the doorstep of his old house in Toxteth, as the world around him again collapses into darkness.