INTRODUCTION

Back in the early weeks of January, news of it hadn't really greatly surfaced until around the 27th. I was young and naive then. High on molly and coke, I'd met a girl and fell in love with her. We were both selfish adrenaline addicts that believed we were enlightened. My lifestyle begins to spiral out of control as the virus trickles out of Wuhan. I was working through coursework designed at a pace for fresh-faced high school graduates and army veterans from impoverished areas. Slow, grueling, uninvigorating. As we stepped away from hands-on activity my soul grew weary of the boredom and repetition - same as with the girl. She lasted four weeks before she took my advice and walked out. As soon as she did, I dropped out of school. I'm not a motivated man. I'm not happy. I love to lie, I love to steal, and above all, I love to get high and fuck until there's nothing left to love about myself but the sins. I don't have the kind of personality that makes relationships blossom. There's little about me to praise or even remark about. The only valuable thing I can give you is my intuition. I've always had a knack for predicting the future of global events and psychoanalyzing others. Many do. Bill Gates predicted a disaster of this caliber years ago in an interview we've all seen by now. Human beings have the capability of fostering a higher threshold of emotional/tactical intelligence that gives them an edge for using logic to aid in survival. People like Gates need a sense of precognition to continue to grow their empires and provide for their physical well-being and emotional satisfaction. This is every man, woman, and non-binary person's pursuit - fostering an ecosystem in which they have all their sexual, physical, and emotional needs fulfilled. The problem with nations is when you remove flirtatiousness from the fabric of a society, everything becomes passionless. Nations cease to want the same things as the individual, and every peoples' need becomes different. Many begin to crave war. By and large, democratic societies appear to instill a rabid sense of enthusiasm that doesn't ring the same in all global citizens. The liberal ouroboros loves to act as though the so-called "invisible enemy" is not something like COVID-19; rather, they believe it to be the spirit of people like Donald Trump. Nationalists who disbelieve that wholesome cooperation between all nations and blind acceptance of all peoples can be established without a natural proliferation of violence, rape, and murder. As much as they wish they were correct about the world, they aren't. Acts of destruction and sabotage will be everlasting, and someone, somewhere, will always want your blood and your obedience. The terrifying implications of the pandemic aren't the alarm that rural, uneducated Americans are sounding about an explicit act of biological warfare. They aren't the liberal fantasy of Trump finally being laughed off stage for his response coupled with an instantaneous growth spurt in world peace & cooperation. Cold wars aren't that laughably simple. What this establishes definitively, rather, is not even that China purposefully caused the pandemic. What it shows is much, much more terrifying: it demonstrates that they have fostered a state strong enough to be capable of globally dispersing a bioweapon without anyone catching on early or being able to stop it from entering and affecting its citizens. Not the U.S., not Russia, not anyone. What does this imply? If China can do this, can Iran? Can North Korea? Can we? Will we? Where does it stop? The only thing you need to ask yourself to determine whether China is capable of committing such an egregious act is to determine whether they have the will and power to do so. They've shown that they have the power. It's your job, with the resources I provide you, to determine whether they have the will. 'Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?' I have no name. I have no face. I serve only to awaken you. If you must assign me a name, call me: 睡龙