I just finished reading two posts here, one about Finland coordinating their invasion of Russia with Germany, and the other about “Blowtorch Bob” D’Aubuisson (which for some reason brought to mind “Bandar Bush” and MBS). I started thinking about all the money spent on perpetual war, slavery, genocide, to get expensive natural resources very inexpensively, and sell back to the people resources needed to sustain life at very expensive rates mostly unaffordable to them. Surely it would be less destructive to all life, the planet, and precious money to just…be equitable. It seems like bloodlust and may be the real driver, after all. Is this a delusional thought?
playing risk with other people’s lives
“the great game”
Sigmund Freud was mostly entirely off base, but the Death Drive/Thanatos seems legit. Likewise, everyday sadism is included in the expanded “Dark” traits based on some pretty solid experimental evidence.
Of course, that also implies the desire for expansive domain (or “property”) correlates directly with the desire to harm others for the mere sake of it. It’s no surprise we see evidence of both together so often.
