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 I haven’t been consistent with posting to my blog, primarily because I have been depressed about the current state of politics in the States. This morning it occurred to me that our current political situation is a little like going down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. We are currently expected to accept “alternative facts” as reality (and some actually do). Nothing is what it appears to be. As one who came of age in the 1960s, I well remember Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit: The year was 1967. I was in the Army and, . . . → Read More: Farther Down the Rabbit Hole Comments are closed Blog 1967, Africa, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alice, army, Army Chaplain, Asia, Battle of the Greasy Grass, British Empire, Cambodia, Catch 22, Charge of the Light Brigade, Dutch, follow the money, French, French Indochina, George Custer, Grace Slick, Halliburton, Jefferson Airplane, Korean War, Little Big Horn, military failures, movies, news, Pete Seeger, Plains Indians, politics, rabbit hole, SE Asia, video games, Vietnam, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, War Profits, war-like conflicts, White Rabbit |
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