The Mask

The words of history ring true. Today is yesterday, tomorrow is the day after. It never was that history
repeats itself, it is that the roles are played by actors of equal ambition.

A dramatic event can change the direction and policies of a nation. It is the policymakers, those who
make laws, that recognize an opportunity and are quick to seize it. The laws are enacted by these
people, the actors on stage. 

They are not bad actors in that sense, they are actors who are the understudies of, without knowing,
the play in which they play a part. 

We are the audience, that is our role. When the director narrates the scene, the actors perform, speak,
and tell the narrative. 

The playwright creates the narrative, the actors have been fully rehearsed, and the Audience
suspends belief, indulges in fantasy, thus the narrative becomes the truth.   

When writers could not sign their works, the “nom de plume” was their personage. A Mask, if you
will. 

The audience bought into the play. The difference is the use of the Mask, the audience WEARS

the Mask to signify compliance with the narration.