One thing we’ve learned about dangerous men is that it’s usually how they are dangerous that surprises, and Love remains the down card in the poker game. There is a fear and anger beneath the surface of every society, and certainly every empire, waiting to be activated. The years of the Covid-19 pandemic, economic decline, increasing inequality, news of the plutocratic class gorging itself on the commonweal, widespread addiction, extreme weather events, and psychological despair have, I fear, primed the body politic to accept radical interventions.
