There's a game called Riven. It's a sequel to a game called Myst. In these games, you can literally create connections to other people and worlds through written books, in other words, knowledge is soft power.
Riven's antagonist is a vile colonialist who believes he's a god and can do this writing. He has wasted whole worlds of potential soft power in search of proof his hard power is the correct way to do things. If he connected with people and worked with them, he would have vastly more power over whole multiverses and ultimately, be almost akin to a god.
Instead, he wastes the resources of one world, called Riven, to try and rule 244 OTHER worlds through forcing them to do what HE wants. Because while this antagonist can be persuasive, he doesn't really understand the value of simply being able to write links to worlds at all. He doesn't understand his true power, soft power... and so he loses it all. His power, his command, his ability to keep oppressing people. Because he doesn't understand soft power.
I think about Riven a lot these days, and how relevant it is to us now in 2026.
Relevance.
Trump is Gehn, Earth is Riven. This game from 1997 is so, so very relevant.
I really think you ALL should play Riven: The Sequel to #Myst. Either the remake or the original.
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