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This Episode…
DEAR EDITOR,
Guyanese citizens should just stay home and grab their popcorn. This episode of Guyana’s history is directed by the Coen Brothers. In keeping with their trademark narrative and themes, the story is this: An average Joe finds himself in a fortunate circumstance after years of being put upon. Suddenly, that fortunate circumstance is in endangered by his own hubris and he clumsily seeks some fraudulent way of correcting it. Because of his incompetence, however, the fraudulent act goes horribly wrong and he comes to the attention of powerful authorities.
He lies, obfuscates, temporises, schemes, all the while digging himself into a deeper hole than if he had just owned up to the initial consequences of his own hubris.
Just when he believes he has reached a rhythm of evading those powerful authorities and buying himself some time, a sudden, unstoppable force enters the scene, a terrible but neutral evil that seems to work in his favour at first so he seeks to exploit it.
We know how this ends. The average Joe becomes irredeemably corrupt in his self-righteousness and criminality. The consequences he sought to avoid in the beginning are multiplied a hundred fold and visited upon him.
At the end of it, after all the carnage and destruction, he is still vanquished, but perhaps worse, any memory of whatever good he once possessed is erased by the reality of the casualties of his cowardice. He becomes a footnote in history, absurd and tragicomic, a man fated to adhere to the constitution of his unfortunate archetype.
Yours faithfully,
Ruel Johnson
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