“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”

-Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Elizabeth Holmes is currently imprisoned for defrauding investors . . . puppets—taken for a ride by her misleading and fraudulent nonsense.

Elon Musk has an extensive history of something similar, which is to say: raising money by promising projects which ultimately never develop because the science is either impractical or impossible. Nevertheless, countless puppets disregard the improbability of his many promised projects manifesting in the way originally described or at all, opting evidently instead to await his orchestrated cyberpunk dystopia where corporations and the individuals who run them run the world . . . and whoever assists in that may have a place at the top. Among these gullible puppets is unsurprisingly our art-of-the-deal extraordinaire, multi-bankrupt, bleach-in-the-blood President, Donald Trump.

Of course, a uniquely dangerous kind of puppet is one under the impression that the relationship they have with their master is reversed, and has puppets of their own ensuring them so.

“I’m your source of self-destruction.”

-Master of Puppets, Metallica

-Matt