A conversation about power.
"Power has always existed in the world, it just had never been, for lack of a better term, fair.
You didn't grow into power, or attain it with the sweat off your back, you didn't luck into it.
Because true power, power that matters isn't in one person, it's an institution, it's generational, it's an organism.
And so for the longest time the top stayed on top, but when Powers arose, entering the world of fact straight out of comic book pages. Well, that, that shook things up, alright.
Now, power was, if not meritocratic, at least random.
And all around this cruel, beaten world we exist in, there were lots of people just needing the power to evict the change they thought the world needs.
And that caused the most insane level of social unrest you can ever think, sometimes I wonder how a society even still exists... that sure was a decade to live through.
But if there's one group you'll never see me complaining about; it's The Red Guillotines.
You know those mega corporations, with those untouchable people on top, doing fucked up shit just cause they can? And you think to yourself sheesh it sure would be nice if someone just killed all those motherfuckers. Well, turns out some of the people that thought like that also lucked into getting some powers.
And I'd say there's a selection bias on all the Red Guillotine members having the most broken powers you ever heard about, cause those billionaires got the money to hire some heavy security and powered mercenaries, so yeah.
I just think it's nice that now they have to step lightly and follow the goddamn rules if they want to keep their fucking heads."
"Come on, Old Dan, stop monologuing to the younglings, You'll bore them to death."
"It's actually pretty interesting to hear, about it, I mean, and to think that you all grew up in a world where powers were just fiction... that's just so crazy."
"You hear that? The kid thinks I'm interesting."
