Nothing under the sun is new...
Tolstoy's works are as prescient today as they were when first published in the 1860's and 1870's....
“The misery of nations is caused not by particular persons, but by the particular order of Society under which the people are so bound up together that they find themselves all in the power of a few men, or more often in the power of one single man: a man so perverted by his unnatural position as arbiter of the fate and lives of millions, that he is always in an unhealthy state, and always suffers more or less from a mania of self-aggrandizement.”
From Tolstoy’s pacifist writings, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”, revisited in 2022 in light of Russia’s war against Ukraine, and even MORE pertinent today as Donald Trump seems to truly believe he is King Donnie and not the Court Jester in King Elon's court....