What is it about powerful people and scat? Trump shits himself; that is now an accepted part of his image. And yet, he does nothing to rebut the allegation, or to have his minions sue or threaten to sue anyone who says he shits himself.
Maxwell would smear the toilet wall on his private jet, forcing the crew to clean it up after he left the plane. Why? Why do something so degrading to oneself and expose those around you to it?
I’ve come to the conclusion that shitting oneself, for ‘normal’ people, is a deeply shaming experience. But for the narcissistically powerful, it is another mechanism to exercise control over others, by forcing them to accept that they are subservient to the shitter.
Post-shame is also about power. The power to subvert other, less powerful, but nonetheless previously perceived as powerful people. Marco Rubio is a good example. Formerly a Senator from Florida, but with his ‘promotion’ to a combination of jobs in the Trump White House, now a person with no individual power. He is now subservient to Trump, emasculated and forced to parrot Trump, to praise him, and to wear the misfitting shoes that were ordered for him. He must even lie and say the shoes fit, even when everyone in the room can see they do not.
Furthermore, he must stand (or sit) and heap praise on someone he finds personally loathsome, and must lie on that person’s behalf, no matter how trivial, or major, the lie. He must also sit (or stand) there, pretending he is not being washed over by waves of the stink of shit.
This is the ultimate power: to force once powerful people (and little people) to accept that they must accept the literal shit of the person who can destroy them.
And that is what Scat is to powerful people, the proof that they can so humiliate and humble the once powerful that they are reduced to cleaning up the shit of their now-masters.
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