The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (untying an impossibly tangled knot) solved easily by finding an approach to the problem that renders the perceived constraints of the problem moot ("cutting the Gordian knot").
An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel its elaborate knots was destined to become ruler of all of Asia. Alexander wanted to untie the knot but struggled to do so without success. He then reasoned that it would make no difference how the knot was loosed, so he drew his sword and sliced it in half with a single stroke.
Here's another legend that Trump reminds me so much of. It came to me when I had the following realization: the reason people think Trump is a bad leader is because they've been without leadership for so long that they don't know good leadership when they see it.
The issue with being Alexander the Great or Trump is that there are things even an Emperor or a President can't overcome. The Deep State is not a new thing, its been in every civilization throughout history and is tens of thousands of years old. The name was just different in the past.
Way back in Ancient Egypt, during the late Bronze age, there was a pharaoh, a literal God on earth, who challenged the Egyptian Deep State; the priesthood. It resulted in the Heresy of Armarna, because those who possess institutional power will destroy anyone who challenges that power. Akhenaten, has a super-model for a wife (one of many) and he is the only Egyptian Pharaoh who is depicted as he probably was; not ideal facial features and a beer belly. Akhenaten tried to change the Egyptian religion, from polytheism to monotheism and the worship of one God, Aten. Not much is known about why he wanted to do this, or how everything went down, but guesses can be made. He died (Akhenaten did not kill himself) and his 10 year old son, King Tut, was made puppet......er Pharaoh and undid all of his father's reforms.
King Tut was the Joe Biden of the ancient world: Biden has about the same cognitive abilities as a 10 year old, but the reason the deep state of that time and this time favors them is one and the same: they will both be puppets who will undo the previous regimes reforms and rubber stamp the agenda of those who were thrown out of power. Akhenaten was a radical reformer, after his death, any trace of his rule was erased from history. Statues of him were defaced and desecrated, he was edited out of all the history books, his every word and deed censored and removed. We don't know precisely what Akhenaten tried to do, we just know that he pissed off just about every single source of institutional power in ancient Egypt, which means, he was probably on the right track.
The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (untying an impossibly tangled knot) solved easily by finding an approach to the problem that renders the perceived constraints of the problem moot ("cutting the Gordian knot").
An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel its elaborate knots was destined to become ruler of all of Asia. Alexander wanted to untie the knot but struggled to do so without success. He then reasoned that it would make no difference how the knot was loosed, so he drew his sword and sliced it in half with a single stroke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
Trump the Philosopher-King.
Here's another legend that Trump reminds me so much of. It came to me when I had the following realization: the reason people think Trump is a bad leader is because they've been without leadership for so long that they don't know good leadership when they see it.
The issue with being Alexander the Great or Trump is that there are things even an Emperor or a President can't overcome. The Deep State is not a new thing, its been in every civilization throughout history and is tens of thousands of years old. The name was just different in the past.
Way back in Ancient Egypt, during the late Bronze age, there was a pharaoh, a literal God on earth, who challenged the Egyptian Deep State; the priesthood. It resulted in the Heresy of Armarna, because those who possess institutional power will destroy anyone who challenges that power. Akhenaten, has a super-model for a wife (one of many) and he is the only Egyptian Pharaoh who is depicted as he probably was; not ideal facial features and a beer belly. Akhenaten tried to change the Egyptian religion, from polytheism to monotheism and the worship of one God, Aten. Not much is known about why he wanted to do this, or how everything went down, but guesses can be made. He died (Akhenaten did not kill himself) and his 10 year old son, King Tut, was made puppet......er Pharaoh and undid all of his father's reforms.
King Tut was the Joe Biden of the ancient world: Biden has about the same cognitive abilities as a 10 year old, but the reason the deep state of that time and this time favors them is one and the same: they will both be puppets who will undo the previous regimes reforms and rubber stamp the agenda of those who were thrown out of power. Akhenaten was a radical reformer, after his death, any trace of his rule was erased from history. Statues of him were defaced and desecrated, he was edited out of all the history books, his every word and deed censored and removed. We don't know precisely what Akhenaten tried to do, we just know that he pissed off just about every single source of institutional power in ancient Egypt, which means, he was probably on the right track.
“History does not repeat itself. But it often rhymes.”