Great article.
Kipling put it in more concise and poetic form in his “Gods of the Copybook Headings”
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
I love the ominous prophetic ending...
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “
I wonder if the author is familiar with this poem.
I'd be willing to bet he is. Kipling's was a great talent.