Today’s Republican right are practitioners of the Humpty Dumpty approach to communication: “I said it very loud and clear. I went and shouted in his ear.” Like Lewis Carroll’s Humpty, they also believe that they can make reality, as Humpty makes words, mean whatever they want it to mean.
Tag Archives: Republican Party
Rightwing Rewrites Reality
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alice through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, politics, Rasselas, Samuel Johnson, Tea Party Comments closed
Republicans Need a Shakespearean Fool
William Dyce, “King Lear and the Fool in the Storm” (1851) There’s been a lot of talk about bubbles in recent years. Tiger Woods’ bubble, which cut him off from his fellow human beings, may have led to some of his self-destructive behavior. The Vatican has been living within a bubble for a while, unable […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged King Lear, politics, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
