In these Trumpian days for the world,
where power and wealth are more concentrated
into the hands of fewer and fewer individuals,
such that we have to relearn the real-politic lessons
about how empires restructure themselves
that George Orwell once made cogent and clear,
because the world seems to has forgotten them,
I think of how Czar Nicholas II once accrued
that much power around himself that in the chaos
of his court he became incapable of making clear decisions.
There, in those times those he made decisions for
asked themselves Should we blame the Czar?
Or blame his ministers for this indecision?
What they could not ask, which we can,
because history has given us the answer,
is 'Will the next regime centralise power
even more than the present president?
And be even more secretive/opaque?
Who knows is how much opacity we can live with?
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