Popular Sophistry

Authoritarianism always requires
that the masses misunderstand
how those in power got there
-by mis-selling their way to the top.

Such popular sophistry
is the acme method of power.

The person who understood this most
was the person who repudiated it best,
and is least understood by popular history.

Diogenes lived in a wine jar.
He cornered the market
for his own philosophy
with his through and rank
anti-authoritarian behavior.

Very few people in the modern world
dare to touch the hem of his garment
in the hope of permanent transformation.