Most readers will recall the Greek myth of King Midas. The avaricious King prayed that he be granted the ability to turn everything he touched to his coveted gold, but thereafter discovered to his dismay that his food and tragically, his beloved daughter would also be so transmogrified
Our Nation, radically created by its Founders to eschew the historical injustice of European Monarchies and the institution of privileged classes, was envisioned and created to be a Democratic Republic, “By and for the People.” Royal and class privilege, together with contextually traditional and stereotypical trappings, were rendered anachronistic and out of context in the new conception of governance. The successful implementation of such a doctrinal policy of societal morality, for almost three centuries, albeit with some temporal hiccups, resulted in the maintenance and duration of a successful and resourceful Nation, and consequently admired as an avatar of equality and social justice.
As we perceive history, the architectural style and public character of the building, housing America’s National Executive Offices (“The White House”), in sync with the enlightened philosophy of the Founders, was purposefully designed to be relatively modest. Such intention was philosophically and demonstratively in notable contrast with the palatial magnificence of the historic European monarchs. The architectural conceit was to symbolize the radically just and equitable character of the newly created Nation
As witnessed in the televised news media, Donald J. Trump, in his singular occupation of the White House, has demonstrated his apparent inappropriate affinity for the grand decorative style of Napoleon, King Philip V, or Catherine the Great, which was in aesthetic and doctrinal contrast with Washington or Jefferson; in his evident, crass, and Midas-like preoccupation with gold as well as sundry other (ego-bolstering). imperial symbols, like large, costly military parades and flattering portraiture.
Trump’s monomaniacal lust for recognized greatness, albeit, fatally hampered by his demonstrated incapability, ignorance, and bizarre delusions of grandeur, vainly seeks assuagement by the empirical accumulation of gold and other success symbols. In our view, his mission is inexorably doomed to abject failure. Trump’s solitary and reductive enclosure in his signature, psychoneurotic bubble disables him from any reflective consideration, save ego protection and perceived glorification.
Consistent with his reductive self-interest, he reportedly is spending several million dollars of taxpayer money on having the historically venerated Oval Office festooned with gold leaf and, additionally, constructing an unprecedented golden ballroom. This Midas-like preoccupation is diagnosably identifiable as an inappropriately desperate and hapless attempt to achieve the public’s impression of greatness. This neurotic display is shamefully concomitant with his denial of funds for needy American children and those who are inhabitants of other countries, for food and medicine, his fiscal corruption, denigration of the Nation’s institutions of learning, elimination of the Nation’s vital health research agencies, his ubiquitous derogation of the U.S. Constitution, and the rule of law, his serial mendacity. and dcem,onstrated absence of a modicum olf societal moral compass,
Our contextual, orange-haired Midas, uniquely, is the singular American President, so reductively egocentric as to be entirely oblivious of character and traditional ethnos of the American Nation, as a consequence of his monomaniacal preoccupation with his personally reductive issues.
His golden route to success and favorable recognition is predictably as doomed as his analogical blockhead, the legendary King Midas.
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