The Power of Choice: X-Files Pre/Post Terrorism

Kait O'Brien
5 min readJan 8, 2021

Reflecting on Deep Throat’s death in 1994 — after being chased by strange armed forces from a malevolent foreign dictatorship and authorized by the executive branch — Mulder states in This:

“He’s dead because the world was so dangerous and complex — then. Who’d have thought we’d look back and say, with nostalgia, what simpler times.”

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Kait O'Brien

Kait is a writer, artist, and explorer of ideas based out of Albuquerque, NM. She holds a BA in Psychology from City College in New York.