Eschaton's endnote: the present infecting the game — Canadians as villains

The footnote states the pattern as law: it is "well-nigh impossible to keep the present from infecting even a playful and childlike Historical Consciousness," so "Canadians often end up playing picayune but villainous roles" in the game's scenarios. This is the theme's account of how deep the O.N.A.N. grievance has sunk — into children's play, into a game explicitly built to escape the present — such that the Canadian-as-villain has become a reflex of the historical imagination itself.