Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
As Alice found as she stepped through the Looking Glass, we are living in a world turned topsy-turvy where the normal rules seem not to apply. But still, some would have us believe that they, and only they, know what is true and what is not, and thanks to the explosion of media venues, social and otherwise, we are inundated with those opinions of reality.
“The President waited too long to inform the nation.”
“The President overreacted to the threat, and is racist.”
“If you’re not eating at Chinese restaurants you are a racist.”
“The virus is not serious, live your lives as you would normally.”
“The Chinese did a great job to curtail the virus. We need to learn from them.”
“The President sent all our supplies to China!”
“The President won’t send us enough ventilators.”
“I’m not hoarding ventilators, I’m stockpiling them for when they are needed.”
“Why doesn’t the President tell us what is going on?”
“Why does he have to have all these daily briefings?”
“He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
“We won’t air his comments.”
“His support has been excellent.”
“Why does the President mock the media?"
"Why does the media mock the President?"
“Why doesn’t he listen to his advisors.”
“How could his advisors give him such bad advice?”
On and on the talking heads talk. Their political views intact, their opinions unchanged, their self-righteousness never in doubt. How do we create such characters? It would be beneficial if we could simply be honest about the agenda of each talking head, but then we think they are.
“Alice laughed, ‘There’s
no use trying.’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t
had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When
I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.’”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
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