we have the most individual leverage in history, yet everyone is choosing to live like they have zero agency by outsourcing the ordinary and gruesome (meat without the slaughter, profit without labor), we have lost our stomachs for the extraordinary, dirty, and necessary
one of the load bearing fictions we adopted after the second world war is that a single man can’t possibly have that much power. history is moved by “the people” or “international bodies” and not at all the heart of one individual. we’re watching that fiction get destroyed.