Alice entered Wonderland by falling down a rabbit hole that led to a strange and metaphorical adventure. Whether the United States has collectively fallen down a rabbit hole or whether politics have always been bizarre isn’t clear (at least to me), but we currently seem to have entered a time when the . . . → Read More: Down the Rabbit Hole
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 Comments are closed  Blog  1984, Alice, Alice in Wonderland, alternative reality, communist, democracy, dragons, dystopian, Eugene Ionesco, George Orwell, heroes, if not now when, If not us who, kings, Latvia, Mad Hatt4er, Nazis, rabbit hole, Rhinoceros, Starship Troopers, troops, well-regulated militia A long time ago (1959) in a land far, far away (France) a playwright named Eugène Ionesco wrote The Rhinoceros. In the play, the citizens of a provincial French village turn into rhinoceroses. The most common interpretation of the play is the Nazi takeover of France in the 1930s. The Rhinocerisation of the citizenry in the play symbolizes that takeover. When I was watching TV news last night, I had the weird sense that the United States is currently undergoing its own process of rhinocerisalion. While we watch our friends and neighbors become rhinos, we exclaim the equivalent of the . . . → Read More: The Rhinoceros Comments are closed Blog Al Wilson, bazarre, china shop, Eugene Ionesco, France, French village, king of hearts, madness, military rank, play, rhinos, snake, snakes, The Rhinoceros |
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