More vocabulary and phrases for folks. The blind leading the blind. ๐ = someone being guided by someone else who is ignorant. One is asking help from another who is equally clueless. Sealing oneโs fate = something that makes oneโs fate decided in an unpleasant way. Example: His terminal stage lung cancer sealed his fate. He died. Machiavellian = someone who is cunning, shrewd and manipulative in the aim of gaining power. Scheming, and unscrupulous especially in politics. Not nice. Note that Machiavellian is derived from the person Niccolo Machiavelli and must capitalize the adjective. Example: Machiavellian CEOs of conglomerate companies cut corners to make big profits. ๐ต ๐ต ๐ต Kafkaesque = confusing, tedious, unpleasant, excessively and unnecessarily complicated. Note that Kafkaesque derived from the person Franz Kafka. Itโs an adjective derived from a proper name so you must always capitalize the first letter. E.g. Japan is often remarked by the Westerners as having a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Everything has to be done on paper and stamped.