Sep 20
“Well, honey, I pretended that the war hadn’t actually ended. See, fighting was too much fun, and even more fun was the nice way everyone treated you when your side was losing. Then the tide turned, we won, and then it wasn’t fun anymore… because we realized that our winning meant everybody got to benefit, even people who weren’t our sort. That wasn’t supposed to happen. We were supposed to take all their power and lord it over them the way we had been lorded over!”
It was never about fixing society’s ills. It was always about revenge and power.
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September 21st, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“It was always about revenge and power.”
And in that order: revenge, then power.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I don’t think they think of it as something that has to occur in sequence. I think they think of both things as ongoing in perpetuity.