Drumrolls

Let the drum beats pierce eardrums, develop an anthem and get everybody singing it to proclaim alignment. Let not going with the majority feel like blasphemy.

Songs replace divergent thought processes, and guilt compels them to put in extra effort.

Show them images to incite anger or devotion, and watch some of them write corollaries to your theme.

Algorithms will do the rest, while you plot the next move.

You have a population ready to dance to your tune, a volcanic force ready to explode at the press of a button and a warm throne waiting to welcome you.



Written for Six Sentence Stories

17 thoughts on “Drumrolls

  1. Way too true.
    (unfortunately, those of us predisposed to not be entranced by the parades and the crowds, also are useful to those who would manipulate the weak-minded… we are the likely candidates for ‘others/outsiders’
    if there’s anything the mob enjoys more than the other members, it’s focusing their hate on ‘the others/the outsiders’)
    Excellent Six, as usual

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  2. ‘You have a population ready to dance to your tune, a volcanic force ready to explode at the press of a button and a warm throne waiting to welcome you.’ Brilliant evocation of the samsara of the gullibles’ unconquerable belief in simple solutions.

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