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That is scenario 1, where the single pawn can't see all the other pawns, blinded by all the frivolous stuff.
Scenario 2 is checkmate in one move, take a horse with any pawn and it's smothered mate - the king dies, suffocated by the sycophants around him that are powerless to defend him from the pawn avalanche.
A really good metaphor.