This is the way the world ends

And then he reaches forth with all the fine control the world has brainwashed and backstabbed and brutalized out of him, and all the sensitivity his masters have bred into him through generations of rape and coercion and highly unnatural selection. His fingers spread and twitch as he feels several reverberating points on the map of his awareness: his fellow slaves. He cannot free them, not in the practical sense. He’s tried before and failed. He can, however, make their suffering serve a cause g...