Pre-Post Game Analysis: How did they overreach so far after controlling the world for 20 years? I have more thoughts on this than allowed in a single post of 10,000 characters. This is my foremost thought lately about how they have stumbled so badly to the comedic position they are in now of passing notes at funerals. When you send hundreds of thousands to fight, most of them survive. They come back. They analyze what they did when they were 18. They wake up dreaming about faces of people who died by their hand. They start families and look at their children, and they return to those memories at the darndest times. A sociopath will act "rationally" in the face of learning that they did something they now believe to be amoral and unethical. Thoughts of "morality" are abstract constructs to sociopaths. People who came back from war, hundreds of thousands, they don't always act rationally when they begin to pull at that loose thread on their sweater. A rational person would put their head down, turn off the TV, work their way up, do the best for their family, get the nicest house and the nicest car they can, the best education for their children. That would be rational. Discovering the depths of amorality ex-post facto throws all these ideas out the window for some of us. Fuck acting rationally. I was lied to. I was damaged. I became evil. I lost myself. I want revenge.