Red Rising
Highlights
Power isn’t real. It’s just a word.
Of course there are machines to do these things, but an Aureate would never use a machine for something a person could do. There is no power in that.
No man can pursue any endeavor in the face of tribal warfare.
What we must study is humanity. In order to rule, ours must be the study of political, psychological, and behavioral science—how desperate human beings react to one another, how packs form, how armies function, how things fall apart and why.