I poked chatGPT for a bit and learned that your description sounds like its based of an old french myth called 'the juggler of notre dame'. It has been turned into many adaptations so maybe searching with that will help out. (The clown of god is based off it too so that might explain the similarities).

Try the children of time trilogy by adrian tchaikovsky!

This sounds cool! I'm gonna try that.

Yeah i usually go to youtube and type in 'X ambience', X being whatever setting/vibe suits my current book. The videos are usually a couple hours long amd there's a surprisingly large selection to pick from. Anything from libraries to spaceships to medieval villages!

Get pc's that have no accessible ports with a locked down OS without browsers for core systems and a second, separate network for phones etc. That should fix most human errors then no?

It's not, obviously, but susceptibility to bullshit in manic episodes can be i guess. But it's like public information that he has the diagnosis anyway.

And surrounded by yes-men

It's their way of keeping the NK people enthralled with the façade of grandeur the kims have kept up for generations. Their narrative is that the dear leader will keep them safe from the 'depraved' world outside. Project strength and such. And it's also the only thing they can actually get a reaction out of the rest of the world with. Their conventional army has aged worse than russias.

I agree all of it is dysfunctional, but anything on the left is better than the hypercapitalist, visionless and negligent leadership that has been slowly wrecking our social structures and general welfare in the last decade.

Not on the right, no.