Trump's Whole Life Has Been leading Up to This...A Helium Balloon

[McCamy Taylor]

"I had to deal with a being to whom I could not appeal in the name of anything high or low. ...There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone"

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Trump has finally achieved his Citizen Kane moment. He has committed treason for Russia, killed his fellow Americans and dragged his country into hell in order to do it, but his great life's work is almost complete. Trump, the absurdist tragedy about a poor little rich boy who squanders it all is about to end (to quote T.S. Eliot, the author of The Hollow Men) "Not with a bang but a whimper," a perfect, ironic metaphor--a massive, diaper clad balloon. For what could be a more fitting representation for the king of the Hollow men?

"We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw."

When the parade is over and the hot air is expelled, all that will be left will be a piece of vinyl, a two dimensional replica of a man child, forever shouting out his scream of frustration, the universal cry of gimme gimme gimme which is all we have left since Capitalism killed Humanism and replaced it with the Conservative Coalition, Consumerism and the Religion of Money.

There is no real Donald Trump. There is only the mask that Donald Trump created---and as Oscar Wilde once warned, if you make a mask, you must wear it. Trump has been Democrat, Republican, Pro-Choice, Anti-abortion, Pro-immigrant, Xenophobe, Pro-Hillary, Lock-Her-Up. Donald Trump is a Hollow Man. One day, Donald Trump will be a forgotten ruin, like Shelley's Ozymandias

"Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"

In Citizen Kane, we see the child behind the man behind the public figure, when the sled burns. Citizen Kane is reportedly Trump's favorite film. Will he recognize that he has achieved his own "rosebud" moment when the giant, hollow man-baby flies high overhead? Will his adoring fans, themselves "hollow men" recognize their own inner emptiness, their aloneness, their need for connection? Or will they, like Quentin Compson, at the end of Absalom, Absalom deny their despair

“I dont hate it,” Quentin said, quickly, at once, immedi-
tly; “I dont hate it,” he said. I don't hate it he thought, pant-
ing in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont!
I don't hate it! I don't hate it!

William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom

before (spoiler alert) going on to commit suicide (actively by drowning or passively by drugs or alcohol) because they can no longer bear to live in the fucked up world the hollow men have created?

[MyOwnPeace]

1. LOVE the last part..............

Great script - hope you are not giving me false hope!

[McCamy Taylor]

2. "Active" include the death by cops or shooters we are seeing so much of lately

so I would much rather they NOT do that. And those who drink themselves to death or do drugs hurt their families. It is a real waste. I hope that people can regain their humanity.

[malaise]

3. Great post

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