‘The world stopped. Those with ears shall hear the truth.’
Sisyphus regains the hill. A vertical assent to the obvious. The oblivion of the masses. Manipulation by their our mules of addiction. A contrived construction, a Potemkin’s village of lies and externalized myths. The ‘50s Admen take over politics in a pique of prediction-based conjecture. Their lower minions support such projected fallacies upon the populace, the group of idiot savants forever indebted to those who offer to lead. Furry runners seeking oblivion in drugs, sex and rock ‘n roll. Distract me, please!’
‘We who are about to die, salute you!’
‘Indeed. They do beg to be fooled. Across all time, upon every continent inhabited by homo sapiens, in every instance of a necessary judgement by equals. Externalize your internal demons, make them frail by verbose conquer, then dissipate the threat by ignoring it entirely. Make demons out of molehills: Covid. Iran. Ukraine. 19th century Cuba. 21st century Iraq.
‘Expertizing authority by externalizing it to the electronic media muddle. Ask enough fools enough stupid questions and you’ll eventually get the response you want, the one you need for deeper manipulation. 12 monkeys.
But the malicious Machiavelli rarely wins the race, in pestilence, war or famine. The rascals always rise up and eat their masters. Even in Rwanda, Korea, Cambodia. The leadership assumes its own sin of hubris is a quality of unerring truth. They become their own idols. In such idyll, they are taken down, mauled by their own dogs of war.
‘Ever the fool, ever the madman, conquering all upon his stool. George III lost the American Revolutionary War by viewing it as a nasty distraction from the real wars with Europe. But for a nail, I have lost a kingdom.’
‘Amity’s Common Man is, or can be, Every Man. Treat him poorly for long enough and he will awake the beast within. Tell him enough times that he is a racist, warmongering, white savage, corrupt down to his despicable gene pool and he will resist the resistance. They do stand to conquer. When they do, they always follow the New Leader. Musk. Trump, Netanyahu. The hero who rises above hubris to conquer all.’
‘We are naturally social creatures. An inherited trait from our viral ancestors across nearly four billion years, eons upon eons of genetic survival. Of strength over weakness. Or power over the less powerful. Most of us desire the community of others, the companionship of someone and the comfort of the crowd. The rampant wolf or lion appear and cull the herd of the weak, but they never heard the hers, they never heed the herd, they never lead the herd.
Eat wisely.
Sleep well.
Love with Abandon!
