In the last 2,000 years of European history on each great experiment in authoritarian government, the governing classes eventually granted themselves the privilege of state murder
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.
From a foundation of Political Correctness, hysteria was promoted about imperfect weather and another global influenza. Control freaks have gone a long way in trashing basic freedoms
Inevitably, every utopian vision becomes dystopian.
Popular uprisings in Ancient Egypt were successful in upsetting thrones and deposing bullying governments. This article reviews the symbolism of thrones. Or big chairs or even empty ones. As well as that there have been many successful popular uprisings since the early days of brutal political ambition.
In the 1970s an astronomer at Harvard, Barbara Bell published Ancient Egypt’s history of popular uprisings reforming brutal and privileged government
The most recent reform for freedom was wonderful. That occurred in 1989 when unarmed ordinary East Germans took on an armed and murderous police state, which was symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, followed by the collapse of communist governments around the world.
Regrettably, control freaks are belligerently back with a new set of righteous convictions. From a foundation of Political Correctness, hysteria was promoted about imperfect weather and another global influenza. Control freaks have gone a long way in trashing basic freedoms—most pathetically in the former leader of the free world—America.
Egypt’s “Colossi of Memnon” thrones come to mind as representing implacable authority. Well, would you expect anything less from someone who was both a political leader and a god? The people submitted until they could not stand it anymore. Overbearing government was reformed.
No problem for maniacs on a mission. His corpse was exhumed, dressed appropriately, propped up on a throne and accused of many evils
An important but constructive chair story occurred around 1030 AD with Cnut, who was king of Denmark, Norway and England. An historian describes him as the “most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history”. An able and attractive leader, the legend is that becoming tired of fake praise from his courtiers, he had his big chair placed on the beach—where he commanded the tide to stop advancing
Although legend, it is practical instruction and hopefully over time effective; pathetically, another story was not.
Between 872 and 965 AD, two dozen popes were appointed. Within this, from 896 to 904 there was one each year. Obviously, a time of political turmoil. How the ballots were counted is not known.
Within those obviously disturbed times a disgusting event was staged. The newly appointed Pope Boniface VI seemed insecure and to establish his credentials the ploy was to accuse his predecessor of heresy. A charge as offensive as criticizing the mantra that CO2 emissions cause runaway global warming.
And to make the prosecution effective his predecessor Pope Formosa had to be personally tried. His accusers insisted upon displaying him in court and indeed he was forced to attend. But having been entombed for some seven months he was very dead. No problem for maniacs on a mission. His corpse was exhumed, dressed appropriately, propped up on a throne and accused of many evils. For the court record, a deacon voiced the cadaver’s responses.
Utter madness.
Of course, the conviction of heresy was fore ordained.
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As “Climate Czar” John Kerry recently headlined that “Breaking Americans’ Will” is his mission
The corpse was found guilty and Formosa’s papacy retroactively declared null. And having served, his decrepit remains ended up in the river.
In the former Soviet Union, inconvenient individuals were “Disappeared”. In America’s seat of power, deplorables are being “Cancelled”. Biden’s remarkable flurry of Executive Orders are nullifying Trump’s attempts to reform bullying government.
As “Climate Czar” John Kerry recently headlined that “Breaking Americans’ Will” is his mission.
And Time Magazine reviews how the establishment’s manipulation during the election was not rigging, but “fortifying”.
How bullying can it get?
That medieval atrocity of bureaucratic ritual has been described as the Cadaver Synod or the Cadaver Trial.
Never to be expunged from the record, it is an example of hysterical political fury.
Another chair story occurred at the Republican National Convention in 2012. That’s when Clint Eastwood was one of the highlights of the assembly. With prophetic and exquisite irony, he addressed an empty chair as representing Democrat candidate Barack Obama.
Dems can’t convict a chair with no one in it. Or can they?
That may have represented Obama’s contempt for the Constitution on his unrelenting ambition to change America into a socialist one-party state. One must really hate a country to be so malicious.
For Democrats it just doesn’t matter that impeaching a private citizen is unconstitutional. But it is no less preposterous.
Former president Donald Trump’s lawyers have advised that he not attend the persecution.
No matter how well orchestrated, Dems can’t convict a chair with no one in it. Or can they? Regrettably, the blind fury will never be erased from the pages of America’s history.
How severe can the bullying get?
In the last 2,000 years of European history on each great experiment in authoritarian government, the governing classes eventually granted themselves the privilege of state murder.
Bob Hoye (BobHoye.com) has been researching investments for decades, which eventually included the history of financial and political markets. He considers now to be the most fascinating time for both since the Great Reformation of the 1600s. Bob casts a caustic eye on all promotions and, having a degree in geophysics, is severely critical of the audacity that a committee can “manage” not just the economy, but also the temperature of the nearest planet. He has had articles published in major financial journals and, as a speaker, has amused assemblies in a number of cities, from London to Zurich to Tokyo.
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.
