Pakistan and the Philippines: Notes on variations on a theme of oft-sung songs dictators sing

After hearing the news on Pakistan yesterday, I asked an American colleague whether he could imagine GMA taking a leaf from the best-selling song hits of Musharaf. After a few glasses of wine we listed the following observations about dictators:

1. They are infected by a virus called messianism. They want to save us from ourselves.
2. That they claim they can do so because they know something we don't.
3. And when we ask for the info we don't know, they say we shouldn't even know what it is we don't know.
   
4. They have info we don't because we can't handle it soberly.
5. They can handle the info better because, they don't really want to rub it in, they are superior.
6. They are superior, because, not having been breast-fed, they steeled themselves drinking milk from the bottle.
7. But most of all, they were not born with sin, having been immaculately conceived inside the womb of their parents' cow.
8. Moo! You know nothing about national security!
9. They get invited to international conventions of solipsists and we don't.
   

All dictators spring from the old obscurantist tradition that they hear things from the creator reserved for true believers.