The devoted narcissist who succeeds in
convincing his audience that his is a
sublime vision of conquest rewarded
rewards himself in oblivion to reality
so that while his troops have been
soundly beaten on the battlefield and
fearing reprisal from those they have
mutilated and murdered flee for sanctuary
while their redoubtable leader holds
grand ceremonies in palatial, gilded
halls awarding medals of valor to his
functionaries whose skilled propaganda
assures the populace their leader's
looting of a neighbour's territory was
a magnificent victory, lauding his
dauntless generals whose inept and
failed strategies led to battlefield and
territorial loss. A charismatic, pompous
leader can sway his public to believe his
claims of victory on their behalf and that
history and reality are mere fables in the
addled minds of note-takers distracted
by the threat of nuclear punishment.
No comments:
Post a Comment