Two Lunatics

Saturday12th August

If I, or anyone else, had written just two years ago a satire about some time in the near future when we had two lunatics running around and threatening each other – and, of course, this is the unbelievable bit – they are both leaders of their respective countries, with an almost fanatical following.

Kim-Il-Jong – we all knew was a lunatic.  The son of the son of the original leader of North Korea.  And who would have thought that a whole nation could be brainwashed into the ancient belief of the Divine Right of Kings in the Twenty-first Century.  But it appears so.  Unless of course, they are all totally aware of the situation and are simply terrified of not obeying the crowd, and so they worship the Emperor’s New Clothes – even if these happen to be Nuclear weapons.  Or maybe they just believe that America is the great evil and is bent on destroying this plucky little nation, and their only defence is to fight fire with fire.

And talking of fire….We have the Great Leader of America, who now has almost dispensed with Congress and Senate, and rules by Tweet.  Not that he is getting very far, but like all lunatics he seems able to run around the asylum unchecked, issuing dire threats to all and sundry.  But in particular to North Korea, which alone now seems able to stand up and tweak a nose, as Kim drops his trousers and moons at America the Great.

You really couldn’t make this stuff up.  The trouble is that as the language gets more and more intemperate, and as none of this, or sanctions or quiet words of wisdom from China, seems to have any effect – one just hopes that one or the other of these lunatics doesn’t actually press a certain button.  Or, that the powers that be, the sensible ones running the asylums have not forgotten to disconnect them beforehand….