I don;t know that this analogy really fits the current time we are in that accurately. More like an evil asshole snuck into the house ripped the pendulum out of the clock and yeeted it across the left side of the living room. Homeowner is starting to stir and has now seen the evil criminal in our living room, now we just need to beat the living shit out of him, possibly pump him full of some high velocity metallic freedom so he never shows his stupid evil crook face in our house again.