The world is a stage, but unfortunately, the actors are mostly bad at their jobs. Take the latest news from Washington D.C. A man named Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones has been indicted. That is a very fancy word for being in big trouble with the law. This man was a contractor for the Pentagon. He allegedly gave secret papers to a reporter at the Washington Post. Now, the government is acting like he stole the keys to the sun. It is a classic story of people who take themselves much too seriously.

This is how the game works. Someone in a big gray building thinks they know something important. They feel special. They feel like they need to share it because they want to feel like a hero. So, they call a reporter. The reporter feels special because they have a 'secret source.' They write a few articles that everyone reads for ten seconds and then forgets. Then, the FBI shows up and kicks in some doors. It is all very loud, very dramatic, and completely pointless. It is the theater of the absurd, and we are all stuck in the front row.

We are told this information is about 'national defense.' That is a very broad term. It is the most useful phrase in the history of government. If you say 'national defense,' you can do almost anything. You can hide your mistakes. You can spend money you do not have. You can keep secrets that are probably just embarrassing rather than dangerous. Usually, 'national defense' just means something that makes the government look silly. And the government hates looking silly. They would much rather look scary. That is why they send agents to a reporter’s house. They want to show everyone that they are still the bosses of the playground.

But let us look at the man in the middle, the contractor. He worked for the Pentagon, the heart of the American war machine. It is a place that spends billions of dollars like it is pocket change. In a place that big, ordinary people feel very small. Giving away secrets is a way to feel big again. It is a sad little cry for attention. He probably thought he was saving democracy. He thought he was a brave whistleblower. In reality, he is just another name on a legal paper, another cog that broke in a machine that is already falling apart.

And what about the raid? The FBI went to a reporter’s house. In a country that talks about freedom all the time, this is supposed to be a huge deal. People get very upset. they talk about 'freedom of the press.' They write angry letters. But the government does not care about your feelings when its secrets are out. They want their toys back. They want to punish anyone who touched them. It is like watching children fight in a sandbox, but the children have handcuffs and guns. It would be funny if it weren't so exhausting to watch.

The Washington Post wrote five articles using this leaked info. Five. That is it. For five stories that most people forgot before their coffee got cold, a man might go to jail and a house was turned upside down by the police. This is what the government calls 'justice.' I call it a waste of time. It is a lot of noise about very little. But that is the American way, isn't it? Everything has to be a movie. Everything has to be a crisis.

I have seen this all before. In Europe, we have a long history of people hiding things and other people finding them. It never ends with the world being a better place. It just makes everyone look more foolish. The Americans think they are different. They think their secrets are more important. They turn a boring contractor into a villain and a reporter into a martyr. But at the end of the day, the Pentagon will still be there. The secrets will still be there. More people will leak things because they want to feel important for a day. And the FBI will keep kicking in doors because it makes them feel like they are winning a war.

The most ironic part is that we do not even know if the secrets were actually important. They probably were not. Most 'top secret' things are just boring reports that no one reads anyway. But once they are leaked, they become gold. They become the most important things in the world because the government says so. It is a strange kind of magic. You take a boring piece of paper, call it a secret, and suddenly people are willing to go to prison for it. It is a game for people who have nothing better to do with their lives.

The Justice Department says this was an illegal move. Of course they do. Their job is to keep the box closed. The contractor's job was to help them keep the box closed. He failed. Now he will pay for it. The reporter will get a prize. The FBI will get a bigger budget. The cycle will continue until we all just stop caring. And honestly, I think we are already there. We are just waiting for the next person to fail so we can watch the show all over again.