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This is basically one of the premises of my (hopefully soon-to-be-published) book
A bunch of people around the world are granted powers by the living manifestations of various physical and metaphysical properties and told to fight each other over which properties will become the guiding principles of the universe from there on out
The protagonists decide that's stupid and declare war on the United States instead, using their powers to spearhead a vanguard that overthrows the government
Things escalate rapidly in the sequel when various world governments find and weaponize their Totemics
Don't want to spoil too much, but Israel gets nuked about halfway through
Can you just maybe put up a snippet of that part to read before bed? Sounds relaxing
Well based on the brief summary you've given me I've concluded that this is a much more sensible and realistic way for the laws of physics and reality to operate than whatever the fuck's happening in the real world.
Well, I do get trippy when the protagonist who has complete control over information starts to get experimental
He hijacks all TV and phone signals to announce that heaven is real because he just made it by linking everyone's collective unconscious to basically operate as a server for everyone's brains to get backed up on when they die
When people point out that that shouldn't be possible, he just goes "Well, it is now" and it is