The evilest people in history come from the power elite, who both have the capacity to do evil and are also the people in history most likely to be educated.
I don't think that's quite right. Murderbot's function is to protect people/things, it likes to fulfill its function, and then it is (1) enslaved and mistreated, and (2) prevented via enslavement from actually doing its function.
Murderbot story about being finally able to do its purpose.
It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?
Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine
I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤
Note that the above is flatly untrue. The eugenics movement was international and to the extent it originated anywhere specific, it started in the UK in late 19th century and spread across west.
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