Bastards of ideas dwelling in the human reflex of sense and survival. Desiring the overwhelming, immoderate influence, sometimes even on the language and spelling. Taking control over epistemology and decisions of individuals, pushing them into small and large sacrifices. ISMs. They set masses and groups, fighting for supremacy of one aspect of civilization over another, into rotational motion. A monument of authority in the centre of events is a mythical site enabling the usurper to be the one and only, the one who from the heights of institutions, the legislation and order points to the axiom of equity. Below it, there is a fair, with idle debates and violent wars, incessant rumble of hucksters and ideologists, against songs firing up for battle and the lament of the defeated.