Or more exactly the 150 people who matter will make money

The US did this in 1989, to Noriega in Panama.

The Goonies at least had a commentary on deindustrialization; if I remember it right they find the treasure map behind a framed newspaper of FDR announcing the new deal. Stranger Things politics are at best murkier.

After all, I tell myself , I would have not been passive , I would have done something. The kid also don't seem to be there. His language was trapped in a script. The only thing that was real there was the device point at my face

Everything collapsed on the home made contraption the kid was holding. Nothing made sense, nothing mattered but the precarious balance of the trigger and explosive. Years later, it is difficult to explain this feeling, it is as if I wasnt there.

Everybody knows Die Hard is in fact about the Plaza Accords.

Speaking as a professional anthropologist, you are a better anthropologist than 99% of us.