It is worse in these kinds of places, you're right. [ she looks almost proud ] Gold star.

But they're easy to find in any place on earth, if you know how to look. Greed demons find the greedy and feed, and grow in power or reproduce. Pride demons shadow the proud to do the same. They multiply and multiply, and wherever they gather in mass, they tip the scales, push people closer to temptation, make it harder for them to turn around.

It's a self-sustaining system, a cancer devouring this world and everyone in it, and it's the reality that underlies every single thing that happens here.

So you're right. Most people will never really know how fragile things are. How close this world is to the edge of despair.