It's a story that has been told many times over under many forms, from Friedrich Nietzsche’s admonition about those who would "gaze into an Abyss," to Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung or Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, or, in more recent date, George Lucas’s Star Wars epic space opera.
Joshua Rothman really does go to the heart of it, in his September 10, 2017 brilliant analysis of IT for the New Yorker:
In the final confrontation:
Did you get that Hillary Clinton?
"What's really needed is imagination."
The acceptance of Machiavellianism is a trap.
By the same token, this is why Georges R. R. Martin is NOT "the J.R.R. Tolkien of his generation."
Game of Thrones glorifies Machiavellianism (there are those who have referred to it as Campy Machiavellian Porn) and has no spiritual dimension.
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