Don’t mess with Dumbo

We live, so we are told, in a post-ideological society. We are addressed by social authority not as subjects who should do their duty, but subjects of pleasures: ‘Realize your true potential,’ ‘Be yourself,’ ‘Lead a satisfying life.’ When you put the glasses on, you see dictatorship in democracy.

When you're a cat,
You're a cat all the way,
From your first catnip mouse
To your ninth dying day.