And he's not afraid to name names, calling out folks like William McKinley and Joseph Chamberlain of England for basically ruining the world. tries to play by European rules but fails miserably in the process. He likens the world of empires to a game of sorts. Twain wrote this essay as a satirical critique of imperialism. This is the gist of Mark Twain's essay, " To the Person Sitting in Darkness." And spectators sit in the dark, like total creeps, waiting to see what happens. Rules don't exist, while alliances can be made or broken. Imagine for a second, a Hunger Games-type scenario where the great empires of the world (Great Britain, Germany, the United States, etc.) were thrown into an arena with the nations that they imperialized (South Africa, Cameroon, the Philippines, etc.) to play a game characterized by violence and domination.
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