WONDERLAND REVISITED

 

WONDERLAND REVISITED

 

It is almost painfully obvious from the increasingly desperate sounding declamations coming from the current occupant of the White House that all is not well with Trump’s latest peace effort that includes starting a war and now desperately looking for an exit that doesn’t include shouldering the blame.  One of the venues he is considering—if a friend or foe cannot be blamed—is a new shell company that is aptly called: USA Hole Digging Incorporated.  It gives Trump and company a legitimate outlet (a fictional one, no one knows and no one dares to question, he has opened as many bizarre offices as he has closed others) to lay blame if their efforts to entice allies to help out in the cleanup called the ‘Strait of Hormuz and those damn Iranians won’t budge’, don’t pan out.  Perhaps Donald has been right all along in his assertions that the U.S. is once more burdened with ‘going it alone’, cleaning up the global messes (mostly imagined), while all those so-called friends and allies watch from the sidelines.  Hence the bitter language and recriminations, the accusations, the tariffs, threats and belligerence.

A psychologist may rightfully point out that Trump, besides being a psychopathic narcissist suffering from a raft of delusional disorders stemming from his upbringing and childhood and carried through in adulthood, definitely suffers from a reverse blame condition as well.  He loves to portray himself as the victim, of being misunderstood, rather than being the instigator or perpetrator.  Megalomaniacs are incapable of accepting blame and guilt.  While Trump and company are working out the details of USA Hole Digging Incorporated, around the world the remaining sane leaders are watching with bated breath and keeping their fingers crossed that the great hole digger will eventually dig a hole so deep that he will bury himself and that the temporary insanity that has taken hold in the USA will pass.

The world itself is adjusting to the irate, weathervane-like utterances hailing from the man in the White House that are increasingly as predictable as the changing winds and tides that affect our daily lives.  Weather, we just put up with it.  The great wizard of Washington is even bemoaned by Dorothy who doesn’t want to go back to Kansas, but wants to renounce her citizenship and move to Canada instead.  “They’re nice people, even if they say, eh, a lot.”

The Mad Hatter on the other hand, of Wonderland revisited, can’t believe his luck and he loves the fact that the USA has gone down the rabbit hole and has joined him and Alice in Wonderland.  In Wonderland everything strange, bizarre, outlandish and outrageous is embraced with fervor.

Lewis Carroll, a British author (we’re now using the other hand) is turning around in his grave in horror, can’t believe how his fictional fantasy has come to life in the great USA and he is insisting that his coffin be raised in a vertical position so that he may watch from his final resting place.  He is pinching his bones in disbelief, “Hey, guys, I just made it up.  Us Brits know it is fiction.”

Perhaps Marvel, Disney and Hollywood are in part to blame as they have been dishing up so many fanciful stories of fantastic, made-up characters capable of incredible feats, possessing inhuman-like powers and in typical American fashion, who are, to go with today’s American Zeitgeist (mindset), invincible.  Once you start to believe your own shit, oh man, we’re all in deep trouble.

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