"You can tell a bully from a leader by how they treat people who disagree with them." --Miles K. Davis
In today’s socio-political climate, how can we look our children in the eye and tell them that crime doesn’t pay or that bullying is wrong—when, on their screens, they witness bullies exerting power without consequence? They see corruption rewarded, injustice ignored, and those in positions of authority enriching themselves at the expense of others.
Some of the most powerful seats in society are occupied not by those working for the good of all, but by individuals serving a select few. An agenda is being shaped, and people are either coerced or conditioned into accepting it. Meanwhile, those who fight for justice, fairness, and empathy are demonized. Critical thinking—once the foundation of progress—is dismissed as antisocial, subversive, or even dangerous.
Control is justified in the name of preserving values, but those values are narrowly defined and selectively applied. The architects of these systems do not live by the rules they create; they build the walls, yet remain outside them, unaccountable.
A clown wearing a crown does not a monarch make. It simply makes a clown in a crown.
As C. S. Lewis aptly warned:
"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits [or T-shirts and ball caps] sitting behind desks."
And let’s not forget—1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, and even, A Brave New World, were written as dystopian warnings, not flipping how-to manuals.
Carmi
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