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GliderGuider

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4. The Trickster never looks like you expect when he appears.
Thu Apr 6, 2017, 05:43 PM
Apr 2017

I used the pord "picaro". It's a particular kind of trickster that comes out of European history.

A picaro is a person of low character or social class. He (or she) gets by with wit (i.e. cheating, cons and theft) and rarely deigns to hold a job. In the story of a picaro there is no plot, just a loosely connected set of adventures or episodes. There is little if any character development either - once a picaro, always a picaro. His circumstances may change but they rarely result in a change of heart.

That sounds pretty close to a Trump.

What you're talking about is more like what Indigenous Americans call spirit of Wetiko. I agree that Trump epitomizes that spirit as well. It's all in how you choose to look at him.

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