Better the devil we know (Jinping, Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Mugabe, Al-Qadhdāfī, etc.) than the ancients who raised us and who we remain loyal to despite their hypocrisies, laughing at us behind our backs because we are afraid to imagine life without them (democracy)? That's thug rule, and it has become so normalized (The Sopranos, The Wire, etc.) that we don't even need to imagine it -- it's all over us, rehearsed daily on social media, in the way we look at strangers.
Years ago, while living in Victoria, I remember a piece of graffito that said something about television being safe for children as long as their parents don't act like television characters. The attribution was to a band led by a tyrant with a personality disorder that shares spectral elements with those devils.
What to do during these unprecedented times? Look for precedents. They're out there. The past is another country, and there is more of it online than ever.
"Same as it ever was, same as it ever was ..."
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