Well, clowns are so clowns - no Pennywise can compare. Why Pennywise - even Zelensky smokes in silence.
[REGNUM] Imagine the plot. A cult (yes, yes, that's right, don't argue!) writer lives in the US state of Maine. Author of dozens of books that are published in millions of copies around the world. The writer survived family trauma, drug addiction, an accident - survived; tough guy.
But one dark, dark night, a barely noticeable pale pink fog began to curl in his room. He crept up to the sleeping writer, and ominous voices in Ukrainian language whispered ancient spells, interrupted by exclamations of “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!"
In the morning, the author woke up already captivated by the evil spirit, which was once known in the human world as Stepan Bandera - either a man or a demon, responsible for the brutal murders of thousands of people.
Well, if Stephen King again decided to write about himself, and he loves this business (how many times in his texts did a car hit the hero?), then he would probably like this plot. There is a cool villain, and a spectacular victim, and the voices of the past, and the current context - in general, sometimes they return, as the King of Horrors himself once titled his story.
But, probably, still Mr. King will not write about the captivity of the famous writer by the spirit of Stepan Bandera. Largely because he will be busy, firstly, searching for money for Ukraine, and secondly, creating a fake scenario about Russian “crimes” in Donbass. Perhaps even an entire book.
Actually, in King's sensational revelations to pranksters Lexus and Vovan, the most disgusting thing is precisely this - the willingness with which a serious author, a respected author, agreed to write a frank "jeans", a political order about how some allegedly torture others. He agreed to act as a stupid propagandist, working on one side of the conflict without doubts and as they say, a twinge of conscience, without a desire, in principle, to understand what is happening. An ordinary liar - that's what Mr. King showed himself to be.
He basically said a lot of abominations and nonsense. For some reason, they decided to spin a picture in telegrams about how King supposedly thinks that Bandera, in general, did not commit any special crimes. No, the King of Horrors did not say this - he only agreed with the pranksters, whom he mistook for President Zelensky. He generally behaved very obsequiously.
Although where is he, and where is Zelensky, in fact? However, perhaps this is just the banal politeness of a well-mannered person who grew up in a culture where it is important to “smile, just smile”, asking “how are you are?” when meeting, although, in fact, you don’t care how someone really is.
He was embarrassed, choking on his drink, in a conversation with pranksters, Stephen King only once, when Zelensky announced that his favorite hero was Pennywise (aka It from the book of the same name - brilliant, it should be noted, first of all, with his sociality). The rest of the time, Stephen King agreed, stating, for example, that Bandera is a great man, and comparing him with George Washington.
Well, we have a new King. Someone has already rushed to call him a bastard, a villain, and further down the fire-breathing list, like a dragon. In fact, we have seen that the cult author from Maine writes great books (I can easily prove why), but he is not wise. That's right - not wise.
The ancient Greeks had such a thing as amathia. It is quite difficult to translate it into Russian. This, simplifying, is the opposite of wisdom, which allows you to reason and act sensibly, for the good, decently. So, Stephen King showed us amathia.
"Amathia, then, can best be thought of as lack of wisdom, i.e. the opposite of sophia." Link
By the way, he once again showed that we overestimate famous people too much. Here recently, for example, Axl Rose from Guns'n'Roses (once a great rock band) confessed his love for Ukraine, food in the voice of Mickey Mouse about the war. Well? How many have been and will be? Paul McCartney generally lights up in Ukrainian. People live according to the agenda they are given. We are all, one way or another, part of the Matrix, and it is sometimes more difficult for stars (celebrity) to break out of it than for others. And will their un-wisdom cancel out the greatness of the Appetite for Destruction album and the greatness of McCartney 's songs ?
It's the same with Stephen King. His best books (and, to be honest, they have already been written a long time ago) we both loved and will continue to love, not intending to confiscate and burn from open access. Otherwise, how are we different from the idiots who suddenly decided to abolish Russian culture? Well, clowns are so clowns - no Pennywise can compare. Why Pennywise, even Zelensky smokes in silence.