As you may have noticed by now, the government and the cults in Mickey Mouse Land do not appear to be all that different.
At least, that is the conclusion the individual has reached.
The authorities investigating the cults have not yet finished their work, but according to the individual, Mickey Mouse, Merlot and the Plastic King decided to use the investigation itself as bait. They believed that if they dangled the right words in front of him, he might finally accept humiliation and quietly play along.
Unfortunately for them, the individual proved to be rather stubborn when it came to self-respect.
The End of Diplomacy
For a long time, the individual tried to reason with them.
He asked them to discuss the alleged corruption.
He asked them to fix the problems.
He asked them to address the issues directly.
According to him, their answer was surprisingly simple:
Try to buy him.
And, if possible, humiliate him in the process.
Apparently, in Mickey Mouse Land, negotiation is a two-step process:
- Offer money.
- Add humiliation as a complimentary service.
Once the individual concluded that the road to diplomacy was closed, he decided to do the only thing he believed remained:
Expose everything to the public and let people draw their own conclusions.
The Great Political Puppet Show
According to the individual, the political parties in Mickey Mouse Land are merely tools in the hands of various cults.
Every party, he claims, has its sponsor.
Mickey Mouse’s party is allegedly funded by the Plastic King’s cult.
The Minister of Interior’s party is allegedly backed by the Hogs’ cult.
Alice’s party is allegedly supported by two cults—or perhaps even more.
Publicly, the parties deny any connection to these groups.
Privately, according to the individual, everyone works together behind closed doors.
One can hardly blame them for the denials.
After all, elections are much easier when voters believe they are choosing between different options rather than different departments of the same organization.
The Mental Prison of Mickey Mouse Land
The individual believes that the government and the cults pursued him even in his hometown because, from their perspective, he should never have survived politically or socially after exposing them.
Why?
Because, according to him, they cannot afford for people to see the mental prison they have built.
If people realize that the prison exists and discover that someone managed to escape it, others may begin asking uncomfortable questions.
Some might even start thinking for themselves.
And that, according to the individual, would be terrible for business.
The cults could tolerate one independent thinker only with great difficulty.
Hundreds of independent thinkers?
Thousands?
That sounds less like a political inconvenience and more like a business catastrophe.
Throughout all of this, the individual insists that he acted because he believed the people deserved something better.
Unfortunately, he suspects that this idea is deeply unpopular among both the cults and the politicians.
According to his view, they prefer the people asleep while the cults control the machinery and the parties run the country.
An arrangement in which nobody exposes anybody else’s dirty work, everyone gets a slice of the cake, and the ordinary people receive the crumbs.
The cult members get rewards.
The insiders get influence.
And everyone else is expected to work hard, keep quiet, and be grateful that they were invited to watch the feast from outside the window.
