Meet Cursed Mage’s quiet anarcho-libertarian truth bomb

An anarcho-libertarian dropping truth bombs in a paranormal fantasy? This ain’t your average sit and forget piece of fiction. 

Satu Viiminen briefly stumbled over collective guilt in Cursed Mage. But when our fearless and spirit-chatting protagonist, Kaija Jokiharju, broke her outta that spell, we learn a lot about Satu’s ulterior motive at Fenn University.

And libertarians can thank whatever god they worship that Kaija broke Satu. If not, the kid may’ve forgotten why she came to study international relations.

Not to understand her home nation of Vimsinew’s role in global foreign policy. She needed to prove Vimsinew, a carbon copy of the American Empire, was part of the problem.

But when its sheeple sing the same “Land of the free because of the brave” tune that we see so much in the real world, Sats had her work cut out for her.

And worse, she had a reputation to protect. So she’s relatable to about every dissenting anarcho-libertarian on the planet.

👉 Meet this libertarian truth bomb in Cursed Mage

Satu’s mission? Expose Vimsinew’s war lies

In Cursed Mage, Vimsinew’s involved in this big ass war off-screen with a Middle Eastern-equivalent country called Demka. I think of it as Iran, so you know where I’m going with this.

Demka’s the latest nation Vimsinew’s conducted regime-change operations in. At home, there’s the usual “support the troops” thing going on.

Why? Because the Mercenary and Augury Parties, equivalent to America’s two-party system, have their minions living in fear that Demka’s about to launch a nuclear warhead at the West.

The only way to stop them? Unilaterally invade the country and take out their nuclear sites. Nuclear sites that never enriched anything to match the power of nation-incinerating warhead.

But the Mercenaries and Auguries, supposedly mortal enemies, won’t tell you that. Because when both parties agree on something, it always fucks over the masses.

Satu knows it, but most of Vimsinew doesn’t.

What made Satu an anarcho-libertarian?

We got a girl who snagged perfect grades in high school, was a star athlete, and played the game of school better than most.

She applied for and got accepted into the Ivy League-equivalent Fenn U, and almost fell victim to cognitive conditioning when she had to write a summer essay about how she became a judgmental person.

Satu should be reciting and repeating statist lies, but she ain’t. She almost fell down the rabbit hole, but she’s still standing.

One reason? In high school, she asked herself why her teachers left out certain names in history and economics. Some of these people were:

• Renowned historians
• Economists
• People who tried using the private sector to compete with government

She read about them and realized their ways made a hell of a lot more sense than what her school teachers force-fed her. Satu kept reading about them, and the more she learned, the more sense an anarcho-libertarian approach made.

Her school ignored these people until Satu nonchalantly asked about them. The teacher gave her a harsh talking-to after class, and followed up with a lecture on how dangerous those people were.

The class bought it, but Satu dug her heels in. She realized a state institution would exalt its version while demonizing its competition. Because why wouldn’t it?

👉 Catch Satu’s anarcho-libertarian streak in Cursed Mage

The quiet anarcho-libertarian in Cursed Mage

Everything I told you about Satu Viiminen has hardly anything to do with Cursed Mage’s plot. She’s in there to help Kaija get to the bottom of what happened to a boy named Marko. Something that’s disturbing, but ties into the book’s political themes.

So she’s useful. Valuable. But I drop enough hints to let you know she’s an anarcho-libertarian. And one who’ll do anything to secretly expose the horrors Vimsinew unleashes on its enemies.

The story may be about the revelation that Kaija’s a Mage the establishment seeks to exploit. But libertarians reading Cursed Mage will fall in love with Satu. And there’s even more to her than meets the eye. Find out why in Cursed Mage