- I know I’m always Culturepoasting (just started reading SURFACE DETAIL, no spoilers) but I will never forget the bit in PLAYER OF GAMES where the Azad are like: there’s only one thing a dystopia can offer the citizen of a utopia: the libidinal pleasure of domination
- to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
