Nate D's Reviews > The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

Power doesn't just corrupt. Power is corrupt. Inherently all too often. And assured in power, it's all too easy for a stronger nation or people to blame a weaker for its misfortunes, and take its state as justification not only in denying aid, but heaping further misfortune. The exploited will continue to be easy targets for exploitation. This minimal, absurd fable would seem to be a bit too on-the-nose if we weren't doing exactly this, as a nation, at the present moment. Now more than ever, and certainly more than when Saunders presciently penned it 10 years ago.

Bonus points for the level of extreme reduction that disassembles characters into mere collections of object/attributes to an extent that Urmuz would surely approve of.