The Allegory of The Cave by Plato – one of the greatest luminaries of all time, author of Gorgias, my note on this is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/gorgias-by-plato-gorgeous-gorgias-in.html along with a few thousand other reviews Kakistocracy is waiting for you - 10 out of 10

 

The Allegory of The Cave by Plato – one of the greatest luminaries of all time, author of Gorgias, my note on this is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/gorgias-by-plato-gorgeous-gorgias-in.html along with a few thousand other reviews

Kakistocracy is waiting for you

 

10 out of 10

 

I was thinking earlier, as I listened to the resplendent audiobook The Case for God, by Karen Armstrong https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/05/12-steps-to-compassion-by-karen.html about the difference between Socrates, the wisest man in ancient times, and the new leader (Old too) of the free world, the ultimate narcissist

 

The Orange Felon has only praise for himself, he is a ‘very stable genius’, that is what he calls himself, only I see him as the epitome of malevolence and stupidity, this is why he is a recurrent theme of these notes, you have role models, and then this fool, who has climbed on top of the world, only to show us this is Maya

Glasperlenspiel aka The Glass Beads Game https://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-glass-bead-game-by-herman-hesse.html is a chef d’oeuvre by Nobel Prize Winner Herman Hesse, and at some stage, we meet this ascetic man who talks about Maya the illusion that we live in ‘reality, allegedly, we do not, it is an impression

 

Ergo The Allegory of The Cave, Plato explains how these people, trapped in a cave, see the world through shadows, they do not see the ‘real thing’, and now we have to try and talk about what is real and what is false, to me, the fact that the ‘greatest democracy in the world will have (again!) this orangutan as leader seems unreal

Rudyard Kipling has that splendid poem, If – ‘If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…you’ll be a Man, my son!’ https://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/if-by-rudyard-kipling-one-of-most.html but this comedian took the message and gave it a twist, sardonic, jocular

 

His point was, if all those things happen, then you should have your head examined, which means in this particular situation, that I find myself wondering, is this me, or the world is going crazy, fortunately, close to wat, seventy million opted for someone thousands of times better, and they hate this moron, so I am not really alone

Kakistocracy means ‘government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state’, they were joking on a podcast by The economist that this may be the word of the year, presumably 2025, when Confidence Man https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/09/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html takes the helm

 

Encore une fois, Jesus Christ!

 

I have seen The Apprentice, which is not spectacular, if you ask me, but there are some aspects of the ultimate crook that were interesting, first of all, they made him look human, at least for some (quite large, too much for my taste) parts of the narrative, what with collecting the rent, interacting with father, estranged brother

Then we see how Roy Cohn created the beast we see now, if not all of him, a good percentage, he uttered the rules we see guiding the monster – attack, attack, at number one, never admit to anything (the case in point was blackmail, by a gay man targeting another homosexual) and then do whatever it takes

 

Never say you lost, think of the incredible effort to steal the elections he lost, just like this time, he was anticipating, and insisting that if he lost -why is there no god, to strike this demon down, just kidding, there is free will https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/09/surprised-by-joy-shape-of-my-early-life.html and let us hear evangelicals

This is the result of people living in darkness, just like in The Allegory of The Cave – it could be that I am the one, maybe you as well, who does not see the light, the reality that this is Orange Jesus, the Chosen one, he will MAGA, and we will all live in paradise, from next year on, no more wars, money like we have never seen before

 

Nevertheless, let us think about Socrates https://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/phaedo-by-plato.html and compare him with this Orange Genius of our days, the second George Washington, as Silvester Stallone put it – I am so pleased to say I have always thought this ‘thespian’ a disaster, not an actor really, except for Copland

Jimmy Kimmel said it very well ‘I guess those punches that Rocky took were real after all…George Washington was the father of our nation, Donald Trump is the father of Eric. Big difference there’ look, think of the things he is doing now, after all these mad cult members insisted that oh, he is just using hyperbole

 

Hyperbole you say?

 

What about this line of weirdoes, to quote Kimmel again ‘the clown car’, the man with the bear in the trunk and then with the bear and bicycle accident, oh, and anti-vaccine, so that polio, measles, and more can be rampant again, the woman to lead all the Intelligence agencies, who meets with Bashar al Assad and says, no enemy of ours, is she working for Russia, just stupid, or both, the new attorney general, investigated for sex trafficking, sex with an underaged…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

 

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”