If you dial the resolution back beyond the bed, you have the whole human experience.
Finding meaning within a finite existence framed against the infinite is not easy but, if you pick up your fucking room a little, maybe it can be done with a bit more class and comfort?
There are no checks. There are no balances. There is nothing stopping them…
This isn’t Trump’s vanity - this is the oligarchs, who do not care about nation states, carving up the globe as a resource grab.
The US will annex Greenland. The US will invade Canada. The US will kill protesters, starting with the students.
Concentration camps. Gulags. The disappearing of opponents and mass killings of the undesirables.
Europe will try to unify, but their democracies are already beset by oligarchs, from Putin to Musk, who are financing newly emboldened far-right fringe groups and political candidates.
Europe may rally and pull together.
Or, they may fracture from external pressure and splinter from internal dissention; that is the plan.
… Slowly?