https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

∞ The root metonym our cultures replicate:
The result? The ‘reverse-Pinocchio gambit’ where real living beings, places and people are transformed into artifacts, factories masquerading as paradises, and slaves who imagine themselves gods. In this way, people are transformed into ‘fake people/functions’… for ‘pay’.

Real human beings become puppets in a masquerade-world of verbal, financial, relational and ecological fictions. Meanwhile, our humanity, history and ecologies are ‘divided up’ amongst those at the top of the carnival: the ones who invent and dominate the potemkin villages.