How a Generation of Hollow Men Came to Rule a Majestic World
The dystopian sci-fi in which corporations rule the world? That is happening now.
This:
“We do not need more men in suits.
We need people with burdened eyes and dangerous love.
People who have suffered deeply, and therefore cannot be corrupted easily.”
The youth of today, with their shabby, virtue-signaling values, do not know that principled people could exist.
Does our era shape the leaders, or vice-versa?
Thank you. Your words pierced through.
Yes—what once felt like dystopian fiction now reads like the morning news.
And yet, what haunts me most is not the puppeteers, nor even the hollow men on stage—
but the quiet erasure of belief in the possibility of principled souls.
Souls who don’t posture, but ache. Who lead not by image, but by burden.
To your question—Does the era shape the leader, or the leader the era?
I think the era sets the stage...
but every few lifetimes, someone walks in who rewrites the script in blood, not ink.
We’re overdue for one.
Or maybe we’re the ones.
The dystopian sci-fi in which corporations rule the world? That is happening now.
This:
“We do not need more men in suits.
We need people with burdened eyes and dangerous love.
People who have suffered deeply, and therefore cannot be corrupted easily.”
The youth of today, with their shabby, virtue-signaling values, do not know that principled people could exist.
Does our era shape the leaders, or vice-versa?
Thank you. Your words pierced through.
Yes—what once felt like dystopian fiction now reads like the morning news.
And yet, what haunts me most is not the puppeteers, nor even the hollow men on stage—
but the quiet erasure of belief in the possibility of principled souls.
Souls who don’t posture, but ache. Who lead not by image, but by burden.
To your question—Does the era shape the leader, or the leader the era?
I think the era sets the stage...
but every few lifetimes, someone walks in who rewrites the script in blood, not ink.
We’re overdue for one.
Or maybe we’re the ones.