Saturday, March 4, 2023

The Inspiring Tyrant

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Insulation comes in many shades but

it has its start in a scheming mind well

schooled in the manipulative arts of

influence and fear-mongering. Its lessons

are manifold from lackeys anxious to

please in the performance of assigned

duties never questioning edicts that might

trouble the minds of others. Negotiating

skills to convince a populace of the assumed

popularity of the leader whose smiling

face and reptilian eyes mesmerize and inspire

fear. Insulation negates clarification for

mandates brook no hesitation and if the

vulgar forces of conflict intrude the quality

of propaganda stirs faith in national pride

prods youth to declare themselves prepared

to die. And they do. And their families mourn

yet refrain from posing what never occurs to

their minds steeped so deeply in admiration

for the leader astride a horse, muscular in his

ambitions, insulated from consequences.



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