Just your daily reminder that much of the power that rules the world - the immediate political power and the wealth that buys influence over that power - is in the hands of literal psychopaths who value their short-term self-interest over anything and everything else, including humanity’s health and well-being.

One day there will be a memorial erected over a lifeless Earth - “Here lies the human race - billions of lives and millennia of history destroyed so that a few psychopaths could buy mansions and yachts.”

The Cloven by Brian Catling

It’s the third book in a trilogy set in and around a darkly fantastical forest in central Africa, roughly based on the Congo Basin. I’ve been enjoying the trilogy, but I’m only two chapters into this book, so can’t say anything definitive about it yet.

Ah…

Yes - now it all fits together.

I remember those days, but I wasn’t on Reddit then.

Hasn’t r/canada notoriously been a mod-dictatorship shithole for years now?

I never spent any notable time there, but I remember seeing meta-conflicts there spill out onto the front page on a pretty regular basis.