OPINION - Dark fantasy, brutal violence and chilling politics: what Squid Game season 2 says about us

Imagine a world in which a cabal of extreme libertarian oligarchs operated with complete impunity. In which they did what they liked on a private island outside the reach of the law, operated a uniformed militia, and saw ordinary people as subhuman “trash” whose struggles for survival only have value as a resource for the entertainment of the bored overclass.