Welcome to Musing Interruptus. Thank you for clicking, thank you for listening. As we go down the rabbit hole of thoughts surrounding experience, betrayal is not one easily avoided. There is an internal betrayal, which I won’t go into right now, and an external betrayal. This is today’s topic.

Betrayal can only exist when you trust a person or group with information or resources, thus giving them power over others. For example, a ruler might have their trusted advisors who run around behind their backs, sharing information, resulting in the ruler being overthrown. Even the brightest leaders have misread a run-of-the-mill sociopath who extracts information for their own gain, in a game they feel they must win at all cost. As losing is the ultimate blow to their very fragile egos. People who sacrifice trust and friendship to -win- —whatever  ...