The Fall (The Strain Trilogy, #2)

by Guillermo del Toro

“Power revealed is power sacrificed,” said Setrakian. “The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”

“You should ask Him.” The boy said quietly, “I have.” Setrakian nodded, patting the boy on the shoulder. “He never answered me either. Sometimes it is up to us to discover the answers for ourselves. And sometimes we never do.”

It’s said that Copernicus (I can’t be the only one who thought it was Galileo) took Earth out of the center of the universe. And Darwin took humans out of the center of the living world. So why do we still insist on believing we are somehow something more than animals?

We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world’s wealth in the hands of a select few.