The Mad Hatter's Tea Party
Words mean things unless, of course, you are a postmodernist Democrat.
We all relate to books and stories by Ayn Rand (Atlas), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), George Orwell (1984), Franz Kafka (The Trial), and Kurt Vonnegut (Harrison Bergeron). We see them as predictors (or warnings) of our world in 2024.
All great works and authors, but I think we discount the predictions of one of literature’s greatest satirists when we don’t consider how the works of Lewis Carroll and his adventures with Alice roaming around in Wonderland directly relate to today.
Lewis Carroll created a surreal world where fantastic, supernatural things were possible – things that escaped the bounds of reason. It is a world at the end of the rabbit hole built of irrationality, absurdity, relativism, and complete fantasy.
Appearing as a child’s diversion from harsh the reality of the mid-1800’s, his work is filled with things recognized then as nonsensical impossibilities – but Carroll’s work was one of ultimate satirization of the sociopolitical landscape of his time – a children’s book for adults.
I pulled a few quotes and took a bit of literary license to substitute a few real people for Carroll’s characters.
Reading Carroll today sounds like a transcript of Karine Jean Pierre’s last press briefing:
“My name is Peter Doocy, but — “
“It’s a stupid name enough!” Karine interrupted impatiently. “What does it mean?”
“Must a name mean something?” Peter asked doubtfully.
“Of course it must,” Karine said with a short laugh: “my name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.”
“When I use a word,’ Karine said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.“
“The question is,” said Peter, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Karine, “which is to be master— that’s all.”
Or an interview with a Twitter/X GEN Z Biden fanboi flack Harry Sisson on cable news:
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Or reading the transcript of an Alejandro Mayorkas interview about the border :
Bret Baier (Alice): Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
Mayorkas (The Cheshire Cat): That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Bret Baier (Alice): I don’t much care where.
Mayorkas (The Cheshire Cat): Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.
Bret Baier (Alice): …So long as I get somewhere.
Mayorkas (The Cheshire Cat): Oh, you’re sure to do that.
Most of the defenses of the Biden agenda has reached the same level of lunacy as the conversation around the table at the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
Biden (the Mad Hatter): “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” Biden (the Hatter) said, turning to Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes (Alice) again.
“No, I give it up,” Scott Pelley (Alice) replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said Biden (the Hatter).”
The Hatter was unable to answer a question of his own origination, no more than Democrats can bring their own riddles to completion.
Given this context, one is left to wonder what "democracy" means to Democrats.
They use that word quite a bit, but they never really say what it means to them.
Words postmodernists use, and the contemporary Democrats are most certainly postmodernists, means whatever they want them to mean.
Or from The Princess Bride: Ï don't think that word means what you think it means..."
A couple of handy definitions:
DEMOCRACY, n, an election resulting in a win for a Democrat by any means necessary
FASCISM, RACISM, SEXISM, et. al., n, something a Democrat doesn't like or understand