Arquette's discourse on how only 15-20% of soldiers fire true put me in mind of "The Men Who Stare At Goats" which if I recall correctly has a very similar narration at one point invoking the very same set of facts.

I took the Mr Robot flickerating as being indicative (directly proportional to?) of Elliot's grave state of health. Symptomatic of Elliot approaching death and / or loss of consciousness?

Seen "Taxi Driver" lately? 😈

Interesting. If that's Price & co.'s intent they must assume China and the other currently-emerging nation-states of the world would either find that transition beneficial, or think that they have the force available to compel it, but both seem awful unlikely.

May not be a WW1-specific fetish. Perhaps he gets off more on the godlike (but mere) "drawing and redrawing" of lines on maps throughout history? That's another well-discussed aspect of WW1: how in only four years, half those countries were gone and many of those sacrosanct lines were redrawn and utterly forgotten?

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