> George #Orwell is a useful guide to what we’re witnessing. He understood that it is possible for people to seek power without having any vision of the good. “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake,” an apparatchik says in #1984. “We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in #power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.” How is power demonstrated? By making others #suffer. 1/2 #crueltyisthepoint