The Ship of Theseus by Ricki T Thues

The Ship of Theseus 

by Ricki T Thues

 

The ship MAGA had sailed for years under a captain convinced he alone knew its proper course. Then, out of the blue, came a tsunamic wave; a revolt of outrage that swept away ninety percent of its planks. It was a mutiny rejecting the ship’s mission and demanding a different course.

Yet the captain stood at the helm, oblivious to the revolution. He continued barking orders as though nothing had changed. He promoted the ship’s architect to first mate.

The new crew replaced the ship’s planks with their own ideology, but the captain ordered the first mate to steer back to the previous course.

The crew’s outrage was not that the MAGA had become another ship, but that its captain refused to see it.