The Thrones & Empty Chairs of Absurd Politics

Throughout history there has been nothing more absurd than fatuous courtiers, fatuous politicians, fatuous bureaucrats, fatuous reporters and fatuous intellectuals. Somehow, they all seem to come together in always dangerous experiments in authoritarian government. Ambitious factions have combined such that those with privilege have imposed hardships upon ordinary folk, unrelentingly dictated from the seat of government. If not a throne at least a big chair. Including the edifices in Ancient Egypt with huge effigies of pharaohs or gods sitting on huge thrones. And eventually the iniquities between governing classes and ordinary people became so severe that benign popular uprisings reformed the destructive habits of in-your-face and in-your-wallets government.