Accruing power by destruction is not new. Here the librarian presents portraits of economic and social conflagrations in several iterations.
Yet when all is laid to waste in service of sustaining some undefined yet precious control, in the end all that remains to be controlled is the waste itself.
Accruing power by destruction is not new. Here the librarian presents portraits of economic and social conflagrations in several iterations.
Yet when all is laid to waste in service of sustaining some undefined yet precious control, in the end all that remains to be controlled is the waste itself.
Fools' errands writ large, to be sure. It would be a pleasure to simply sit back and laugh but for the fact that so many lives -- of workers, bystanders, and the unsuspecting -- are also laid to waste at the bottom of the money pyres.
Accruing power by destruction is not new. Here the librarian presents portraits of economic and social conflagrations in several iterations.
Yet when all is laid to waste in service of sustaining some undefined yet precious control, in the end all that remains to be controlled is the waste itself.
Fools' errands writ large, to be sure. It would be a pleasure to simply sit back and laugh but for the fact that so many lives -- of workers, bystanders, and the unsuspecting -- are also laid to waste at the bottom of the money pyres.