Thank you. I actually wrote this in 2018 in relation to Kim Jong Un, dear supreme leader of North Korea (recorded with a different accent originally). But with dictators popping up everywhere these days, and with Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Putin, and Putin's murder of Alexei Navalny this week, it felt appropriate to post it today as my fortnightly Sunday poem, with an attempted Russian accent. Who knows what prompts I'll receive over the next two weeks for my next posting on Sunday 3rd March?
The global rise of dictators has definitely gotten my attention and I'm not sure why the rise is happening. I do believe the internet will facilitate their downfall. But how soon?
Thank you for commenting, Helen. My theory is this: you deliberately run down an economy which produces a lot of disgruntled people who feel (and are) politically disenfranchised. You invent an enemy (foreigners, them out there) and direct the disgruntled people to vent their frustration onto 'the enemy' whilst at the same time appealing the (apparent) security of the 'good old days' when life was simpler and easier -- then cap it all with an appeal to 'tradition', usually in the form of religion and 'family values', which in turn engenders a homely sense of 'security' - where the wannabe dictator big guy will sort it all out for you. The name Trump springs to mind.
Thank you again for reading. There's many things going on in 'high places' that we have no clue about. But what we do know is that many people are impoverished by the money-as-debt system, fuelled by the cost of constant wars. I reckon, that at the very very top of the pyramid of power, these guys know they are all serving the same mad god.
Well said! It’s definitely a curse of impotence for them shone though a glaring gaslight! 🙏❤️
Great recital! Almost makes me feel sorry for the poor bastard 😥. And so timely❣️😎
Thank you. I actually wrote this in 2018 in relation to Kim Jong Un, dear supreme leader of North Korea (recorded with a different accent originally). But with dictators popping up everywhere these days, and with Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Putin, and Putin's murder of Alexei Navalny this week, it felt appropriate to post it today as my fortnightly Sunday poem, with an attempted Russian accent. Who knows what prompts I'll receive over the next two weeks for my next posting on Sunday 3rd March?
Give em the stick, Slick.
I appreciate fluent sarcasm.
Thank you. Options seem to be closing in on normal humans, and this was one particular response still open to me.
The global rise of dictators has definitely gotten my attention and I'm not sure why the rise is happening. I do believe the internet will facilitate their downfall. But how soon?
Thank you for commenting, Helen. My theory is this: you deliberately run down an economy which produces a lot of disgruntled people who feel (and are) politically disenfranchised. You invent an enemy (foreigners, them out there) and direct the disgruntled people to vent their frustration onto 'the enemy' whilst at the same time appealing the (apparent) security of the 'good old days' when life was simpler and easier -- then cap it all with an appeal to 'tradition', usually in the form of religion and 'family values', which in turn engenders a homely sense of 'security' - where the wannabe dictator big guy will sort it all out for you. The name Trump springs to mind.
Looking at history, I think there is something very real about the saying, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Thank you again for reading. There's many things going on in 'high places' that we have no clue about. But what we do know is that many people are impoverished by the money-as-debt system, fuelled by the cost of constant wars. I reckon, that at the very very top of the pyramid of power, these guys know they are all serving the same mad god.