Friday, October 17, 2025

Caesar humiliates his vassals at his peril

Shakespeare, and history too, are full of morality tales where the flawed ruler gets too big for his codpiece, and begins to imagine himself the master of his universe. Or possibly even Master of The Universe. Did you see Trump in Egypt? He'd invited a bunch of subservient "world leaders" to the signing ceremony of the greatest peace deal in history. In his speech he thanked them for coming. Why were they there? There was no role for them whatsoever, but Trump just wanted the world to see that all these world leaders would drop everything and fly to Egypt on 20 minutes notice. That's basically a humiliation ritual. Trump seems rather fond of this sort of thing. In both Shakespeare and history, the vassals have been known to resent their humiliation to such an extent that they will begin to conspire against Caesar.

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