Throughout history people have fallen for an easy way out of life’s complications by just pretending that they can do no wrong. Moment to moment, challenge to challenge they find trumped-up rationalizations that they pretend trump all challenges to their absolute authority.
It takes discipline of a peculiar kind, the discipline to be completely undisciplined, no consistency in the playing of those trumped-up trump cards, discipline to play with absolute confidence whichever cards work in the moment paying no attention to reality, or the meaning of the things you say since all that matters is keeping up the appearance of winning. Call it trumpbotting, acting like a robot programmed to pretend to trump every challenge, sorting all wins to you and loses to whoever challenges or threatens your authority. To trumpbot you need to know almost nothing and yet you get to act like a complete and absolute know-it-all. No wonder it has been such a tempting option throughout the ages.
For a trumpbot to stay on message, there can’t be a message other than a relentless “See? I win!” Still, to conceal their egomania they have to pretend that they have some moral message. trumpbots therefore cloak themselves in whatever fake crusade justifies declaring total war against all of their competition. Continue reading.