In Against His-Story! Against Leviathan! Fredy Perlman talks about the civilized carrying corpses around in their mouths and that encountering wild and free creatures makes the corpses peep out.
Well the corpses have completely jumped out of the mouths and are running around eating everything in sight and the oligarchs are sitting in their private boxes laughing at the blood sport and taking bets on how long before everything has been pulled into their event horizons.