Kafka

Paraphrase:
Everyone wanted what Alexander the Great wanted, none can provide it nowadays. Use of the sword to provide that which already exists (outside their reach.) Stakes are so high nowadays that, "no one shows direction." You lack followers because your cause lacks purpose.
Text:
"Strip his clothes off, then he'll heal us,
If he doesn't strike him dead.
He's only a doctor, a doctor after all."
Analysis:
What use are you if you can't even do your job? The reliance! The assumptions! The demands! Though the job is very hard, the assumption is that if the purpose of your life is to do something, you ought to be perfect at it. Nothing is perceived as being outside human reach. Our perceptions perfectly fit our capabilities. The assumption is that so long as you can be employed, you can succeed. I can do my (easy) job, yet you can't do your (hard) job? It makes no sense, and this isn't even factoring in the relativity of a given illness. When humans are forced to deal with something hard, like illness, their tendency is to blame. When worms are to blame, it is much more senseless than when another human may be blamed. Humans would rather be resentful than think life is senseless. When you think, wow, it is not our weakness which is to blame, but the strength of outside forces, your mind knows how hard it is to adapt. The threat in the above poem is a way for those who feel powerless in the face of a doctor to express themselves. No one is going to kill anyone, but if we threaten something then he will take us seriously, knowing that we don't mean what we say, but we mean more than we could say but not do. As if there is any difference: the doctor tries his hardest no matter what! This is powerlessness at its core: everything from success to difficulty to purpose to the unknown to dependability to responsibility changes towards the tipping point of employment. This is where all these elements meld into one. Under the heading of employment, all jobs are done to satisfaction (guaranteed) and no jobs are left without workers. Therefore, the capitalist system tries to provide us with everything we could possibly need or imagine, but this still leaves out that which it fails to provide. In the capitalist system, the ideal of pure satisfaction of all needs and desires is believed in, or at least bought into, by the vast majority of mankind. It fundamentally comes down to the belief that there is no viable alternative to this system, which, although imperfect, continues to reach toward its unattainable goal every day. Peoples desires have been transformed by capitalism to such a degree that this change will only come through a type of renunciation.