'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on 'And how do you know that you're mad?'
'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?'
'I suppose so,' said Alice.
'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.
This world certainly can seem like it is backward. The economy is a mess, most of us are living under the poverty line, yet we elect government officials who strive to keep us poor! Keep them poor, keep them desperate, make them promises that, not only will we not keep, but we will work tirelessly to defy. When they are poor and desperate, right where we want them, find a way to convince them that they have each other to blame. Encourage them to point fingers as well as guns. Civil unrest, yes! That is what will keep us at the top!
Perhaps. Perhaps we will continue to be good little worker bees and obey the orders of our queen, but there will be a tipping point. Oh yes, there will be! T told me once, when I was flabbergasted by the lack of concern, a couple of years ago, for the downturn the economy was making, he said "If you put enough pressure on something, eventually it will break." I know he is right, and I've been sitting back and waiting for it since then. Something HAS to pull us out of this Carroll-esque world we've created. The problem is that the two sides of political officials, news programs, blogs, radio shows and the loud extremists, continue to tell us that our opposition is each other! These fear mongers are playing with fire and not with themselves, but with us. In reality, WE are not each other'e enemies, it's US against THEM.
It seems impossible that what NEEDS to happen in order to reunite us as Americans is a government shut down, but in our mad, backwards world, that MIGHT be the answer. Government officials, for years, have shown us the path in which we have to take in order to obtain prosperity, or so we believed. At one point, that path MAY have worked for us. Times are changing, no longer is the set path going to lead us to what we imagine as The American Dream. The American dream is dead. The value of the American dollar continues to dwindle, while the prices of basic necessities continue to rise. The constant tampering with our crops have caused our fruits and vegetables to lack the required nutritional value that our bodies need, while it costs more to buy these genetically "enhanced" products. What happens to us when we don't get enough vitamins and nutrients?? Our bodies react, we bloat, our digestive system goes all wacky, and our brains are therefore not getting the fuel it needs to make rational decisions. Their plan to keep us poor and desperate is working, lucky for them, the lack of essential nutrients from our diets, also keeps us stupid. Ignorance causes us to believe them when they tell us they will create jobs for us, they will lower spending on unnecessary programs, they will show us the way back to the path of the American Dream. As our favorite party favor republican Joe Wilson says "YOU LIE!" and they do. That imaginary path to a nice house with a picket fence is an illusion, just like Alice's path home is. It's not HER path, it's the Queen who decides what path she has access to.
Somehow, we have to realize that we are Alice, that we are all in the same place, trying desperately to find our way out of poverty and into prosperity, and we are all losing. Our elected officials are liars, ALL OF THEM, even when they start out as servants of the people, they get caught up in politics and even the most passionate and driven elected officials get lost. Their paths get swept up and disappear, just like ours do, just like Alice's does.
So, how to we find our way back to each other? Back from the right or the left and back into just being Americans? Shut it down. Take away our livelihood. Take away the things we take for granted. Make us ALL desperate and let us all go MAD. A society full of MAD people have a good chance of making our MAD world work for us. It won't be easy! We will ALL suffer. Those who oppose socialism will learn the meaning of a country without it! Food stamps, postal service, disability, SOCIAL security...GONE. The others who think they are better than the others, will find themselves in the same boat. Everyone into the dingy! Everyone join the caucus race! Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Tea Party, Green Party...Let us ALL be MAD AMERICANS!!! When we unite, we can change things. Egypt, what?
