Mario's ONANtiad: the germaphobe president — hygiene as national policy
Johnny Gentle, managing somehow to look presidential in a Fukoama microfiltration mask, whose Inaugural Address heralded the advent of a Tighter, Tidier Nation.
Context
The theme's founding pathology: a president whose private "world-class retentive" horror of contamination becomes state policy — the "Fukoama microfiltration mask" as the face of "a Tighter, Tidier Nation," the Inauguration a public-pool footbath. Gentle's hygiene is not eccentricity but the engine of experialism: a nation reconceived as a body that must expel its filth, so that waste-politics and personal phobia are the same gesture at national scale.