I guess guillotines are the only alternative.
Would you consider Cliven Bundy an existential postmodern irritation? Surely, no one could ever accuse him or his followers of being hyper-polysyllabic.
No, I never meant to say that that sinister conspiracies do not exist, just that those who participate in them never see themselves that way. They're convinced that either they are doing the right thing, or that "they are only just doing their job".
After all, "just doing my job" is the English translation of I vass chust followink orderss.