Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:
Every "supreme leader," [...] lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled [...] so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, [...] how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.