Another Brat for the pack

You Can Call Me Ray asked me to do a facial comparison of Justin Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada, and Fidel Castro (1926-2016). I did so, and the results are shown below:

OK, I was surprised. However, surprising someone of my national heritage (Irish/Polish/Hungarian/Czech – no one is really sure about the latter three) is not difficult. however, take a close look at the comparison. The eyes and nose match. Castro’s mouth is slightly open, otherwise we’d have perfect alignment there. The chins … if you look off to the slight upper right from the bottom of Castro’s beard, you will see alignment. Much here says they are not related – the skin tone, the relative openness of the eyes (though both appear sinister to me), the thickness of the upper lip.

As I told Ray, this merely means to me that Castro and Trudeau of Bokanovski Brats. That in mind, I tried to align them with the ones we already have (I’ve not investigated this topic in some years now). The closest alignment was with Helen Mirren.

Mirren’s eyes appear large due to makeup, since it is necessary in movies for closeups that actors have larger-than-life faces. The mouths are similar enough that I would call them a match. And the noses – Mirren has a large one for a star. Surely plastic surgery was discussed, but not acted upon. (The reason that Mirren ended up among Bokanovsky Brats was that she bore an amazing resemblance to actor Jennifer Lawrence. See to the left. Lawrence was asked about this resemblance on the David Letterman Late Show one night, and her answer was at best, evasive and uncomfortable.

It could be that Lawrence herself does not know of her origins in a test tube (?), but understand that there was probably never any doubt that she would enter show business, and that she trained from a very young age, and that we know little or nothing about her real background.

That is true, I think, of most “stars”. It is also true that we have people of talent who do not fit with the Brat mold – take Jim Carrey or John Denver, each in possession of a unique face and voice. I think that falls under the heading that talent cannot be denied – each is possessed of remarkable gifts, Carrey in acting and comedy, Denver a singer. At least for Denver I can say with certainty that 1) his name is not Denver, and 2) his name is not Deutschendorf, and that 3) we don’t know his real name. His talent was spotted, he was assigned to a military family, rolled out and then survived a public existence until age 53, a long time for a musical star, and that only due to his enduring talent.

That’s all speculation, of course. The truth is that I know nothing of the process whereby people are  selected to be stars or why so many of them appear on the scenes with the same facial profile as other people, including alignment of features. I am but a passenger on this ship of life, and comment on what I see. What about Fidel? On the mathematical principle that if A=B and A=C, then B=C, we should have alignment there too.

That’s close enough for me that I call them Brats. I know not everyone sees what I see. So be it. I could be in fantasy land, or I could have eyes long trained to see facial features in alignment beneath disguises. Judge as you will.

So, pray tell, what is Castro doing on an island in the Caribbean playing the role of a Communist dictator? This has to do with something that, for me and in my view, anyway, goes far back into our history, a British SOP, or standard operating procedure. Suppose that you are the Brits, and rule over a colony that is infected with a virus, called independence, say, in their case, the North American colonies. There are seeds of rebellion all about, and in that case, the mothership was too far away to keep real control. There was bound to be a breakaway, a “revolution” if you must see it as so, but more, in my view, as a natural outburst of self-governance brought about by isolation and distance.

The British MO, or modus operandi, is to concede: OK, let them have their rebellion, but in the end make sure that our people are still in charge. Thus do we have the Band of Brothers, the Founding Fathers, British agents all, and left to govern the former British colony as a new British colony, one in different form.

So it should be no surprise that our presidents are all, with possibly one exception (Martin van Buren), descended from British or Scottish royalty. Wikipedia and AI do not endorse this idea, as would be expected, as both are given us to reinforce what we ought to know, and not what might be true. The British line still rules, and the American colony is still a colony of the City of London.

With Cuba, same deal, and same game plan. The Cuban people were rebellious, possessed of an independent streak, and so the Americans did what their own forebears did: Let them have their revolution, making sure our people were in charge after it is over. The Cubans were punished for decades thereafter, to be sure, to set an example for any other potential breakaways. However, Fidel Castro was a fixture, a man made a local hero by circumstances created by the Americans, including a fake invasion at the Bay of Pigs. (Did you ever hear the tale that CIA had attempted to murder Castro on numerous occasions? That lie serves a purpose, to reinforce in our minds that Castro was our enemy, and in the minds of the Cuban people that he was their true leader.)

So there we have it, a two Bokanovsky Brats serving larger roles than mere movie stars … heads of state. I thank Ray for this tip, which I did not see coming.