Seditious Thoughts

This essay strips away the illusion of equal treatment under the law. Using an imagined conversation between ‘Squid Game’ style elites, it explores the epistemological gap between Luigi Mangione’s rapid trial and the sealed lists of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, proving that the legal system’s primary directive is to preserve the hierarchy of capital.

This critique exposes how Mass Effect manipulates player empathy through aesthetics, vilifying the collective, egoless utopia of the Geth while romanticizing the Quarians’ reactionary regime - ultimately betraying its most radical vision of posthuman peace.

Through the lens of Sorel’s political myth and Foucault’s web of power, this analysis explores the deadly cost of rebellion. It reveals how Silco’s toxic pragmatism and Sankara’s heroic isolation led to the same destination: a revolution devoured by its own children.