'He Is Not The Messiah, He Is A Naughty Boy.... '

When Monty Python wrote 'The Life of Brian'
they soon learned to not make the film a critique of Jesus,
Christianity, Islam or Judaism, there were too many
fine words there to be followed, or strayed from, 
for such words to be ridiculed. But by making the film
about A.N. Other who was being followed
where the comedy of errors lay in the followers
sowing their errors into how the faith was founded.
With this Monty Python team hit humour gold, that will last.

Cut to life nearly fifty years on and the gerontocracy
with autocratic tendencies of one Donald J. Trump    
whose every public word illustrates a kind of verbal
alchemy in reverse: Everything he says in public
has a half life of withstanding scrutiny through logic
that is shortening by the day. Until today's headlines
won't last one whole day, and remain slightly true.

Like Brian's mother in 'The life of Brian'
we have to say of The Donald, as his fans call him,
the headline that will ring true beyond them all
'He is not the messiah, he is a very naughty boy.'.

Misguided Good Intentions

At present the social media is awash with protest.
There, depending on your orientation
the world is either in an alarming position
or the condition of world is beyond appalling.

So meet the protesters who create the new anti-greenwash,
to aid the petitions and comments which foam and froth
against governments that are ecologically misguided,
where the anti-greenwash is more the point than the improvement.

What these Johnny-come-lately Jeremiahs
seem not to realise is how much government
has always been misguided, where the aim
of the future has been to plan for better government
where such a government could ever get here.

Even misguided, dystopian, futures need planning
the better to hide the process of their de-evolution.