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Richard Connell’s masterpiece, “The Most Dangerous Game,”
Civilized society tends to keep warriors at arm’s length, only turning to them in times of national emergency. Break glass in case of war.
We’ve been hunters and warriors for the majority of our existence. Only recently have we evolved, or possibly regressed, into beings with no connection to the land or the wild animals that inhabit it, while also outsourcing our duty to defend our families and our country. Whether this is a “progression” for our species remains to be seen.
“The consolidation of power at the federal level in the guise of public safety is a national trend and should be guarded against at all costs. This erosion of rights, however incremental, is the slow death of freedom.”
“One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted.” —José Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting
pull born of a primal instinct from a time when people lacked the ability to reason, when they were no different from every other animal roaming the earth. Civilization was a more recent introduction to the evolution of the species. Despite that thin veneer, instinct still requires the young bull to exert his dominance over the herd. That time was approaching for the Zharkov line, and Aleksandr would soon make his move.
Dimitry would have preferred that Ivan just hire a team of Wagner Group mercenaries to handle this, but he knew the CIA kept close tabs on those with Wagner affiliations trying to enter the United States.
Dimitry suppressed a smile, thinking of Stalin’s adage, Quantity has a quality all its own.
Raife’s tracking mentor had been a master. Melusi was a member of the Matabele tribe, a Bantu offshoot of the powerful Zulus. The Matabele people were defeated in battle by the Dutch Afrikaners and were effectively banished to what is now Zimbabwe.
