The Dance of Power: A Tale of Slumbering Nations and Their Merchants of Comfort

In the grand theater of North American politics, where the masses slumber in their contentment and mediocrity, a peculiar spectacle unfolds. Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith, like a wandering pilgrim, has made her journey to the golden palace of Mar-a-Lago, where dwelleth the returning sovereign-elect, Donald Trump.

Behold! How they gather in their temples of gold, these merchants of fear and comfort! They speak of trade and tariffs while the masses sleep, dreaming of their small pleasures and cheaper goods.

The tale that unfolds is one of remarkable significance, though the slumbering masses comprehend it not. Trump, that great disturber of comfort, threatens to cast a shadow of 25 percent tariffs across the northern borders, wielding economic might as a weapon against the perceived demons of immigration and drug trafficking.

In this land of the sleepers, where the multitude concerns itself with the price of bread and the comfort of their homes, Smith ventures forth as an emissary of pragmatism, seeking to preserve the status quo that keeps the masses in their contented stupor.

See how they tremble at the mere thought of discomfort! These last men who blink and say: "We have invented happiness - and shopping."

The Canadian response, orchestrated by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, exemplifies the dance of the last men - those who seek compromise and comfort above all else.

The threat of restricting energy exports looms like a specter over this carnival of mediocrity, where politicians speak of "national unity" as though it were some sacred cow to be preserved at all costs.

What is this unity they speak of, if not the collective embrace of mediocrity? They fear the storm that might awaken them from their slumber!

Smith, in her role as provincial sovereign, declares that restricting energy exports would provoke a "national unity crisis" - as if crisis were not the very medicine needed to rouse the sleeping masses from their comfortable dreams.

Yet observe how the political scholars, these modern priests of pragmatism, praise Smith's "effectiveness" in communicating with the United States through the medium of Fox News, that great purveyor of comfortable truths for comfortable minds.

How they measure success in terms of appearances and empty words! These are the values of merchants, not warriors of truth!

The masses continue their daily routines, concerned only with the potential impact on their wallets, while the great game of power unfolds above their heads. They worry about the cost of goods increasing by 25 percent, never questioning the system that has made them so dependent on these trinkets of comfort.

As January 20th approaches, the slumbering nations prepare for what they call "retaliation" - as if their calculated economic responses were anything more than the petty squabbles of merchants arguing over the price of goods in the marketplace.

Let them impose their tariffs! Let them restrict their exports! Perhaps in the chaos of their economic warfare, some might awaken to see the absurdity of their paper kingdoms!

In this grand theater of the absurd, where Smith attends inaugurations and speaks of "constructive conversations," we witness the perfect embodiment of the last man's diplomacy - seeking always the path of least resistance, the way of minimal disruption to the comfortable sleep of the masses.

And so the dance continues, while the true potential for transformation - the possibility of rising above these mercantile squabbles - remains unrealized, buried beneath the weight of comfort-seeking and fear of change.

Verily, I say unto thee: Only when the foundations of their comfortable slumber are shaken, when the last man's pursuit of easy happiness is disrupted, might there emerge something worthy of the future man.