King Kong

(1933)

There are psychodynamic parallels to geopolitical actions. Irredentism/reconstitution, isolationism/defensiveness. The MAGA zeitgeist is that of King Kong brandishing the struggling Fay Wray while threatening to takedown the Empire State, literally and metaphorically. Imperial America a notion Retrumplicans now share with Putenescas reflects the urge to colonize. Both the T and P words are unabashed in their desire to annex. The notion of Canada as the 51st state started as a joke. Now Greenland and Panama have both been thrown into the kettle. The Empire Strikes Back is a good title for this movie. Under Gorbachev and Perestroika, Russia became a wounded giant which is exactly how Trump portrays the US ie as the laughing stock of NATO--this latter having taken advantage of their powerful ally’s good will. To Trump the US is a fat cat other countries lean on. It’s not the first time a paranoid view of the world has provided the springboard to tyranny. In the next episode of The Man in the High Castle,Trump and Xi Jinping take over Taiwan, dividing the spoils into East and West Berlin.

read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

and listen to "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" sung by Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown