Why does the cream of the crap always rise to the top?

 

Boris the Greased  Piglet

We know the cream rises to the top but so does the crap. Nevertheless, it's intriguing why so many people become dazzled and are taken in with sociopaths like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. 

Nesrine Malik, the Sudanese-born journalist, says the qualities that defined Boris's life and career, were dishonesty, lack of seriousness, laziness, and amorality. This is all sounds very true, but he doesn't seem to have done too badly for himself, in spite of being a pathological liar and a first-class shit. It's also likely that his notoriety and disgrace will make him even more marketable. Boris, who hasn't ruled out a come back, now says that his priority is to put hay in the hayloft. The Daily Mail has likened him, admirably, to a "greased piglet" for his ability to wriggle out of any situation when his back is up against the wall. They're also lining him up for a job. 

Needless to say, sociopathic/psychopathic types do get found out and exposed eventually. It was fascinating to watch Boris unravel before us. To watch him riddle about like a maggot on the end of a fishing hook. Whitewash by the bucketful, excuses on tap. The Tories threw him out not because he was a liar, but because he became an electoral liability, trying to duck and dive, and circumvent one scandal after another. 

Yet many ordinary people, that Boris would call the oiks and plebs, still have a sneaking admiration for this lying, amoral, toad, who disgraced the office of Prime Minister. They always called him Boris, as though they were on familiar terms with this Old Etonian. I remember listening to a Yorkshire woman who was being interviewed before the General Election in 2019. She said that she'd be voting Tory, and added that while she didn't trust Boris, he made her laugh, and she thought he was funny. 

What does all this tell us about the type of society we live in? That rogues can climb to the very top of society and often do so. That many people are happy to be governed and are impressed with clever con-men. 

Plato, who wasn't a fan of Athenian democracy, warned that the plebs were susceptible to the words of scheming demagogues and that's absolutely true. Ignorance has become a virtue, and truth and honesty, count for nowt these days. It's all about competing realities and alternative facts.