Friday, February 19, 2010

Alice in Wonderland


My bet is on “H” for Hatter. Only madness is capable of unraveling the complex web of falsehoods and deceit we have woven for ourselves. Only madness can tear asunder the current political and ideological gauze that shrouds reason and smothers (common sense) solution; only madness can remove the putrid, festering blockages formed by petty corruption simply by paying no mind to the obviously insignificant and boldly stepping (hip-deep, if need be) forward. If not madness - then what?

Hillary is way too committed to shades of color. She’s a woman, after all. It makes her inflexible. It’ll cause her to break up in the crosscurrents. Madness (as in ‘Hatter’), on the other hand, is quick, witty and adaptable to any script, precisely because it understands the limitations of script. Madness needs no teleprompter. Put the Red Queen up against madness and she’ll be tempted to hang herself before long.

The only alternative is blunt-edged war – a ‘madness’ in its own right. It’s the season whose time has come when everything has grown beyond complicated; when nothing works anymore. I thought of this yesterday when our drains clogged and we had to call Roto-Rooter. Remember the jingle?

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