“Wait. Nobody can see or hear me?” The President stared at the Prime Minister in utter credulity.
“That’s not quite the case,” said the Pontiff. “They see and hear me, but to them I’m just an old man in a funny hat. They only see the man, not the office he occupies.”
“But how has society not fallen apart without us to guide them?”
“Maybe they never really needed us in the first place?” suggested the retired CEO. “So they shadowbanned us from society.”