The Trump Card of a Musky Rat

ONCE A DICTATOR, ALWAYS A DICTATOR

ORSON WELLES — CITIZEN (DICTATOR) KANE — 1941

The film is a classic. We could wonder what about, under the sun. Black and white cinema, for sure. It uses all the possible nuances of grey and shades of dark to compose images that are both striking and at times shocking. The film is about a myth, nothing but a myth. A child from nowhere in a big American desert, with no future in front of him, is bought up by some agent from some important fund, corporation, or heritage, who cares? The only important element is that from this moment on, the parents will be well-off and taken care of, and the child will be taken to the big city to be educated into managing an enormous fortune. The perfect Capitalistic American dream, which is a myth, indeed. For one child who ends up rich, quite a few million in the USA are in poverty and hundreds of millions of people in the world are trying to survive this very same misery, living on less than two dollars a day which, with Purchasing Power Parity in third world countries, represent something like four or five dollars a day in Western countries. Do think of Trump who was born rich from his parents and grandparents. Think of Musk who is maybe the richest man in the world, but also the most self-centered hominid more than Hominin in the world, on this earth that definitely is the Planet of the Apes.

The child plays the game and he lets the financial lawyer manage the fund and he just uses some of the money for his own projects. And in the Great Recession of 1929 and Roosevelt’s New Deal, he decides to orient his own action towards the press. He buys an ailing newspaper in New York and transforms it into the most successful and influential press medium that could have made him the Governor of the State of New York, but did not because his main challenger, the incumbent governor, brings up a love affair Kane is having with a woman who is not his wife while he is not divorced from this wife. Morality in the love business, you mean lust and craving, of course, is the bed all corrupt politicians use to get rid of all challengers who believe they are God almighty anyway and start running their private life the same way any predator in some subtropical forest would.