Gonzalo Contento

Software engineer. Writing about tech, mythology, and everything in between.

Thinker, not prose stylist. The ideas are mine; the articulation is assisted by AI — an honest arrangement, as old as the first scribe.

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The Jester, Power, and Zarathustra — Why Every Throne Grows a Fool, and Why Killing Him Never Works
June 21, 2026
The Jester, Power, and Zarathustra — Why Every Throne Grows a Fool, and Why Killing Him Never Works
Power always grows its jester; Rigoletto and Zarathustra's fool show why — and why violence against a narrative only canonizes it.
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