NO CLOTHES
“The Emperor has no clothes” waits for a child in the past to point out the obvious.
Welcome to 1925, when reality was swapped out daily with options convenient to a self-selected few, even while millions slowly circled the drain.
Each day a divisive, rolling fantasy merged with reality, like the precursor to a demented game show to appear half a century in the future.
Today, when those ‘in the know’ tell us that vaccines do not work, slavery was not a nightmare, women were created to be ruled by men, Ponzi Schemes with fake coins will make you rich, Habeous Corpus does not matter, and the Russian Empire is a friend, visions of 1925 bread lines re-appear.
The reasons both then and now are basic, as we wait for a child, standing on the sidewalk, watching the parade traipse past, to point and say, “The Emperor has no clothes.”
MPC
p.s. Acton’s Dictum Redux: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”