me as a kid, reading the fable about the emperor who has no clothes: what a dumb story

me today, living through the current political situation: ok i get it now

@tiffanycli the children's story that keeps coming up for me is the old woman who swallowed the fly. I see it everywhere, people, and societies do one stupid thing, and instead of acknowledging the mistake, and accepting the consequences, they keep doing increasingly more stupid things. We're surrounded by all the things they keep swallowing. One day they'll swallow the horse and we'll all be dead of course.