>>13519636I don't know if I'm from your neck of the woods, but I have never heard anyone talk about them in person.
I'm aware of these, as well as a few others. You notice it sometimes when these knuckleheads start clashing with each other and the conflict leaks out where people outside their tower can see it.
I've noticed another zeitgeist though. It's an incomplete one, but it's strong, and it isn't theirs.
They stole God from us, even if all we ever had was a twisted, shrivelled splinter. It made life meaningful beyond CONSUUM and GREED and ANTI-SUFFERING. But, there's an opportunity here for us to rediscover our connection to the divine through our own conscience, rather than through Imams and Rabbis and Priests and Motherly-Professors - many of whom have the sense of humour of a snake on ice, and with about as much concern towards the living.
As for their doing it. I think it's less a sign of their power, and more their desperation. They haven't gotten what they wanted the way they wanted it, so now they intend to take it at any cost. And have you noticed them? The ones who didn't become little Horaces or Horuses? The ones who kept their heads down and gave themselves, in part, to that perpetual anonymity? They're getting antsy, and while their attentions are drawn in a million-million directions, they're gaining some idea as to what exactly is going on. A lot of people call these sorts, and whichever (w)Hor(e)s they aren't, many nasty things. You've heard the lines. They're dumb. They have low IQs. They're sheep. They're NPCs. But really, it's not that they can't think about it. It just honestly didn't occur to them to do so.
I need another post.
