Reply #79: On a Philosophical Note [View All]

[Demeter]

I'm not sure "philosophical" is the correct adjective for what's on my mind this evening....

Lewis Carroll's two nonsense stories are more than apt metaphors for our present state of affairs.

I am struck by not one, but two parallels between his text and current events.

The first parallel is between the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and our Tea Party.

The Hatter's party is a mad mockery of a common social event of the author's time and place. And so is ours. The participants are all mad. he only difference is, Carroll's characters know it and admit it.

The second parallel is between Humpty Dumpty's abuse of the English language, and the abuse that the GOP and now even some Democrats are inflicting upon the language, in an attempt to bully through conversation via distortion of the very meaning of words.

I'm sure there are others, but I'm too tired to go line by line...