The title of this decidedly non-fiction book–One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This–projects a pessimism but is, in fact, not. The worst of all worlds is the opposite: everyone ends up not being against this. The book builds at an inevitability that makes logical sense; what is happening is unquestionably terrible, therefore once the barrier of time that props up self-interest dissipates, everyone will acknowledge the clear evil. Given the grand scale at work, I do not, or perhaps cannot, accept there isn’t a more willful disregard happening. It seems to me there is an actual desire for the misery, aspects that are not collateral but specific and intended.

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