What’s Going to Be the Next Distraction?
How many distractions and spectacles must a president create just to keep the public's attention away from the real issues? In ancient Rome, for example, the city's rulers invented “bread and circuses" to keep the people entertained while highly important, and often corrupt, decisions were enforced. For this purpose, most of the city's budget was dedicated to building coliseums and funding decorations, gladiators, wild animals, and slaves. The more corrupt and criminal the Caesar, the more circuses the people were given.
The analogy is a fitting one for our modern example of “bread and circuses". Our case obviously centers on the most well-behaved and literate president the world has ever met: Mr. Donald “The Fiend" Trump. The story he needs to hide is, without much objection, the Epstein Files. Therefore, any form of distraction has been masterfully implemented by our almighty president: tariffs that risk creating a whole economic crisis in the name of making America Gain Again; using Charlie Kirk's death as a rallying cry and a provocation to further division of the society; dancing like an old pop star to prove he’s still in good shape and lucid in his 80s; Of course, the greatest distraction of all is the constant pursuit of military conflicts, with Iran being next on the list; or, most recently, issuing an order to declassify information about aliens.
Why aliens? Don't you think that 1980s-style aliens are far more interesting than the current meteorological events ravaging the country? The majority of people already know, whether through conspiracy theories or simple rational logic, that extraterrestrial life could exist. But really, who cares besides geeks and astrophysicists? They aren't going to come here just to watch people taking selfies and bombs bursting everywhere! A very lovely culture, isn’t it?
A core part of mainstream culture in the United States, therefore, is statistics. We love to measure the impact of actions with numbers so we can quantify how monumental or dull our deeds and woes truly are. By one of these metrics, Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein Files “more times than God is mentioned in the Bible”, so they say, so you can guess the level of bond they shared during the 90s and early 2000s. And yet, this is not even the main problem. The real issue is that Epstein did traffic children, teens, and women to offer to his wealthy friends. Where was Trump in all this?
Trump lately has been busy trying to create war and colonial invasions, because the classic circus is no longer enough, even with the World Cup happening this year. A major event that is always a prime time for major political decisions; keep an eye out, because if your country is competing, your politicians will use the distraction to steal more from right behind your back.
So, warfare. It is the largest industry after religion, holding more power than your wife (sorry guys and girls, but you know who is really in charge at home). The latest target for our American Caesar is Iran. Right now, much like what happened in Venezuela, the U.S. Navy is surrounding the Persian nation, with other military bases on high alert in case the decision is made to strike in the original name of freedom.
Donald Trump is willing to destroy the entire universe just to erase himself from the Epstein Files. The worst part is that his team and his supporters are riding the same tank. Trump is capable of blinding a country and turning it into a massive, compliant mafia, where our collective silence lets him get away unaccountable while he scams us all.
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