The quirk of authoritarianism often promotes most the most "confident". The most confident of all is often an idiot simply because his confidence is from being too stupid to realize how wrong he is.
Since we are talking about a work of fantasy after all, it seemed worth finding a kind of a similarly themed quote in another work of fantasy, Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring (Movie 2), ~1hr 55 mins in...
Reaching relativistic speeds one parsec out the crew saw multiple outcomes of 3d time unfold before their eyes. One saw a timeline where they end up in a big orgy and pushed the rest in. For decades theorists debated whether causality was also violated. #shortfiction#microfiction
Frogs? Sure! Until now its not been a king with a crown, but been only a clown. Ancient Rome at least had both bread and circuses. We have no bread now, but plenty of circuses to go around.
Indeed, patriarchy generally favors rule by the most "confident", and unfortunately often the most confident is also the most ignorant, so supremely confident because he does not even know how stupid or wrong he is.
The aliens landed and a crowd gathered. An alien spoke up, "take us to your leader". It was as the crowd had feared. There was downcast eyes and shuffling of feet. Finally someone spoke up, "it's embarrassing..." #ShortFiction#writing#microfiction
There other places that also have a "high" level of gun ownership. The highest may reach 50^ per capita (1 gun for every two people) and are or were active war zones, like Yemen, Afghanistan, etc. The US is truly unique (#1) in having 2 guns for every person.
The crowd gathered. "Take us to your leader" they asked. Everyone feared this moment. There was much folding of the arms, pursing of the lips, and tapping of feet. Finally, someone answered from the crowd "it's embarrassing..."
If we reason all this out many Evangelicals believe in pre-destiny. Hence evil must be an explicit part of their god's intent and plan. Perhaps the "correct" Christian Trinity then should be the father, the son, and Satan. It actually fits better than the holy spook. But is all nonsense anyway.
Incidentally this is a very oblique reference to a very obscure comic series made years ago about a kind of Fash takeover by Marvin and the Martians, and featured major characters such as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby Doo as "captains".
Here is a better visual of the "terrorist" boat plaguing the empire... you can clearly see the terrorist leader and his disciples, too! They didn't get the leader though, he was out for a walk on the water at the time...
