The modern taskmasters are the police officers we as children so innocently looked upon as guardians of some sort. They would make our parents feel bad about the slightest errors - traffic violations, speeding, etc.
What a great trick! What a mirage! What a hypnotic illusion!
While police officers go around investigating civilian affairs for personal gain and based on psychotic delusions and obsessions, others go about maintaining an image and aura of moral superiority with traffic tickets. It is in fact a manipulation of the masses - the quiet music that is playing in the background as police officers fail to fulfill true duties, is the continuous notation and cacophony of traffic and speeding tickets, administered with such gusto, with such attitude, seeming ballast, and feigned keenness! Look at them as they belly up their belts, and walk towards you with trained meanness and anger. Oh, no, did I cross a line today, or speed with my car, Officer, with puppy eyes we respond?
They are truly our taskmasters, and we their moral superiors.
Let us never forget the dysfunction of police officers to fulfill the simple obligation to keep social order and peace.