Étienne de La Boétie² lists 16 reasons there's "really no difference" between Biden and Trump
Blazing Reader,
In Tuesday's post, I shared a memorable one-liner from Stefanie Müller in my novel, Much Ado About Corona: "Trump or Biden, Pepsi or Coca-Cola, it’s all the same."
This fizzy little analogy, however, originates from investigative journalist James Corbett (who Stefanie credits in my tale).
This week, my son and I watched James Corbett's Solutions Watch interview with Étienne de La Boétie². About halfway through the video, Étienne shares an illustration from his new book, To See the Cage is to Leave It. It's titled "Meet the new boss: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." It depicts Biden (Dee) represented by a can of Pepsi and Trump (Dum) by can of Coca-Cola. Personally, I think he might have the attributions reversed, but the visuals are amusing.
More importantly, Étienne lists 16 ways there "isn't really a difference" between the two presidents.
You can read the list in this screenshot from the interview (click to enlarge):
And you can watch the full episode over at The Corbett Report where Étienne de La Boétie² shares many more surprising visuals.
John C.A. Manley
PS To See the Cage is to Leave It: 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many by Étienne de La Boétie² is available for purchase through Amazon or directly from the author at SeeTheCage.com.
John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.
