Brilliant investigation into how a society descends into war. The previous chapter's thought experiment asks, "What if an absence of gender equates to the absence of warlike aggression?" or "What if it is only the environmental and material conditions that prevent or escalate war." This chapter eloquently illustrates how a dumb fuck opportunist born into power is fucking up society singlehandedly. Guess we'll see if the Gethenians, unaquainted with war, will allow this to happen or not.