The state of the world, and especially the Esptein files cesspool, has me thinking of _Altered carbon_ (the book, not the TV show). In my reading, the core point of the book is "past a certain level of wealth, you're not really human any more".
The key reasons: * Access to wealth, opportunities, networks and bodily modifications far beyond what anyone at a lower socio-economic stratum can access. So much so that you're not really comparable any more. * Inability to perceive other people as even being of the same species, but only as exploitable resources. To be clear, this is not the only artistic work to advance this thesis - but it is the one that has made the core point in the most memorable way for me. At an even higher level of abstraction, one might argue that the point of all art is to examine the question of what it means to be human. Which could easily be also interpreted as what it means to be inhuman. Thoughts? Udhay
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