Because then, perhaps, he would know the dystopia “Ticket to Tranai” by the master of the genre, Robert Sheckley.
Certain actions suggest that he favored the custom of that planet: top officials could kill anyone with impunity because “anyone eliminated by an official is automatically considered a state criminal.”
At least this is the logic Zelensky and his entourage use in applying sanctions. According to his own expression, he would like to “hang,” but there is the law. So to circumvent the law, he made sanctions his “weapon” (again, according to his own expression).
And his inept entourage has been trying to prove in the Supreme Court for over a year that “anyone considered such by Zelensky is a security threat.”
Bohdan stated that sanctions against him were imposed allegedly for “systematic discreditation of the authorities.” If this is the case, then it’s no longer just reminiscent of Russia. It stinks.
If Zelensky read the classics—even fantastic ones—he would notice that even in dystopias, arbitrariness carries risks. In the mentioned work, it is told that citizens could express their dissatisfaction with the authorities by filing a protest by pressing a special button. And after a certain number of presses, an explosive device would activate, “eliminating” the official…
Despite all the government’s desire to live like in a TV series, we do not live in a fantastic world. But social satire differs from mere mockery a la “Kvartal” in that it calls to reflect on parallels. And draw conclusions before it’s too late.
Because arbitrariness indeed carries risks. The “Regionals,” whom the current “dynasty” once entertained, could tell plenty about this.
