TWAS BRILLIG - OR WAS IT?

      "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."
                       Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

     Your choice - the fun nonsense of Jabberwocky, or the more biting conversation between the Cat and Alice? Which? Or is there no difference when one comes to the end of the trail?
     Quite frankly, I believe both lead to the same point, though one appears to be less harmful than the other and that is the tragedy of it all. It is difficult to get people to understand that the clown has serious underpinnings with serious consequences. Under that smile is usually a
bucket of tragedy, of despair and we certainly have that in our oh so esteemed president.
     This is a man who has gone through life messing up. He messed up in school, at all levels. He messed up in business to catastrophic degree. He messed up in personal relationships, having no long lasting familial one nor matrimonia. And is it not telling  that this man who pathologically appears to hate immigrants married not one, not two, but three of them!!! All the better for him to feel superior to them and to others as he wears them on his arm.
      So are we in the land down that hole or is it that we have all developed holes in our head, in our thinking capacity? I cannot begin to count how many books I have read lately that feature an absurd and bombastic president with ties to the extreme haters of society, who suffers from a very small brain and a huge narcissistic personality! Why is that? Because the thinking person is wondering who is mad here, what has happened or has the old movie It's a Mad, Mad, etc. World come back to real life?
     The illegitimate President and his minions all seem to be losing mental stability by the day. Giuliani, once a hero, seems to have lost it all and plays the stooge,and tweeted out some irrational tweet the other day with no sentences, no thought. Kind of like the tweets we get from the ignorant one sitting there in the White House, morosely staring at his Fox & Friends for directions as to what to do, tweeting out infantile tweets, schoolyard memes, and popping his buttons as he stuffs himself with his Big Macs.
     That is the presidential image of a through and down the hole in the tree land. It is the land of the nuts. It is the land where everything has an underlying meaning and nothing is as it appears. It is the land where all go mad as they struggle to understand the world gone mad.
     "Twas brillig"? Maybe - if we can figure out the true meaning of Jabberwocky. Books have been written about it and generations of schoolkids have laughed as they attempted to recite it with an imposed meaning.
     But we live in a real world, and like it or not, we must make sense of it and we turn away from the difficult task of doing that at our own peril. If we do not fight to instill or reinstall sense and justice, liberty and rights, a sense of mankind rather than a world of tribes, warring ones at that, then we will find our way out of this crazy land blocked at every turn. Not a good thought. Not a good future.
     Right now we are facing an uphill battle as we try to fix it all. We are dealing with a government that continues to kill kids, allowing them to die because who the hell cares, right? They are little brown kids, so whatever!! It is a government that builds teen detention camps instead of looking to see how we can reward these kids for their efforts, educate them and integrate them into our society, all sides benefitting. It is a governemnt that allows, even favors, growth of haters. Just look what is happening once again in the Pacific Northwest! Or, hell! Look to your own cities and countries.
     We have fallen prey to our own weaknesses, played to the bottom rather than the top and allowed major and despicable untruths to become truths. Trump lies, his minions swear and fools believe. After all, they saw it on whatever media they name. Pelosi is a drunk - no, not really, but the glee at this doctored video is rampant. Trump is a"stable genius" - just ask him! And the lies are spewed out all day and night. Truth is lost, acccuracy trampled on, and facts ignored - or made up. "If you write it often enough it becomes its own version of truth." (editor character in Wunderland"
     "Twas brillig." Times a wasting and hopes a fleeting. Time to act. Time to stand up and be strong, demand right, return the power of justice to the land. "Twas brillig?" Nope, not really. "Twas brillig" means or carries a warning - this is what happens when we relax and allow the wrong people to take power. Nonsense becomes accepted truth and the truth dies an ugly death.
     Which country and which world do we live in? The one exposed to the sun or the one down under in a confused world with no logic to it, only dictators and smug characters. Great story, right? Wrong. Not such a kid's story after all.