Commentary “The principal task of the State today is to justify its own existence. To do so, it has to annihilate society’s capacity to survive by itself. Surreptitiously undermining all forms of spontaneous regulation, deregulating, desocializing, breaking down the traditional mechanisms of bodies and antibodies, in order to substitute its artificial mechanisms—such is the strategy of a State locked in a subtle struggle with society—exactly like medicine, which lives off the destruction of natural defences and their replacement by artificial ones.”—Jean Baudrillard In Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” his protagonist, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, exposes a bacterial contamination causing illness in the town’s famous spa water. Pressure mounts on him as his brother Peter, the mayor, warns of the social and financial effect of such a disclosure, and his father-in-law Morten Kiil, whose tannery is leaking the poisons causing the bacteria, buys him shares in the spa to insure …