Power does not erase wisdom’s serial warnings about the corruption and cruelty that often accompanies extreme wealth; it orchestrates and sustains an institutional matrix to demonstrate why the warning applies to someone else.
There is a grim existential irony in how those most convinced of possessing an absolute moral truth, acting within a field shaped by fear, reflex, and desire, come to cultivate greed, cruelty, and exclusion in the name of that certainty, mistaking the felt coherence of dominance for righteousness, and remaining largely unaware that what they […]
Daedelus Kite 