This chapter focuses on Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, a perfect example of Stiegler's nightmare: a young man's indoctrination into the capitalist-neoliberal system disguised as a necessary sacrifice for the good of Western civilisation. The desire to preserve the supremacy of the West is subtended by the suspension of democracy and the polis in favour of an elite group of heroes. Free will is postponed due to the state of emergency, while the young man has to accept that he is nothing to the father, a totally expendable object to be sacrificed to His desire.