Willard is the epitome of predatory behavior, which we have come to sanction under the name of capitalism.
The essence of predators is that they take without asking and without giving anything in return. Predators make nothing, build nothing, preserve nothing for future use. Predators, from the perspective of their prey, are purely destructive and wasteful. That is, they kill more than they can consume.
This is a boon for scavengers and carrion eaters, but, from the perspective of other species, predators are only useful in thinning a herd and preventing population explosions that might otherwise deplete the herd's resource base. The human species requires none of these "boons." Indeed, because humans are creative and able to produce and reproduce what they need to be sustained and sheltered and those that can't have speech to communicate their needs, there is no practical need or purpose for humans to engage in predatory behavior. And preying on their own kind is totally anomalous. No other species with half a brain does that.
So, human predation is an innovation. Killing their own kind makes humans exceptional. Doing it under the guise of capitalism, using currency to predate vicariously is really innovative. So, we could say the capitalist predator is super exceptional, not only for having redefined competition as elimination, but for doing it virtually, without shedding any blood. Vicarious destruction -- now that's new. Or is it? Isn't that what the ritual sacrifice of the Lamb of God on a regular basis models for us?
No wonder there's an affinity between persons who aspire to secular dictatorial powers and the Vicar of Christ. Vicarious predators is what they are, whether in the religious or secular realm. The religious do it in the name of a deity; the secular do it in the name of the nation.
"In the name of the nation and of the dollar and of the rule of law, all your children are sacrificed."
This is not hyperbole. It is what George E. Bush proclaimed every time he talked about the sacrifices of the troops. That they were innocent lambs being led to be slaughtered by people in a far-off land did not have to be pointed out.
Vicarious predation. Isn't that what the Mormon Bishop and Vicar of Lucreville is about. The Vicar of Rome has nothing on the Vicar of America, the chief of a predatory enclave. Doing it vicariously means never getting one's hands dirty.