In Saturday’s DM we meditated on the potential for America being overseen not by a president, however a king. A Mad king.
Is it potential {that a} Mad king wants a Mad hatter round him? Many people have been uncovered to the time period “mad hatter” in childhood from the “Alice in Wonderland” adventures of Lewis Carrol’s novel. An eccentric character seems known as the Hatter and the Cheshire cat calls him and the March Hare “each mad.” Thus, the “mad hatter.” The King of Hearts cautions him to not be nervous or he could have him “executed on the spot.”
The time period “mad as a hatter” was used within the 18th and 19th centuries to explain somebody who’s loopy or susceptible to unpredictable habits. Hat making was the primary commerce within the city the place Carroll grew up.
Why is a hatter thought of loopy? As a result of again then, the hat-making business utilized mercury poisoning within the making of hats. Industrial staff employed a poisonous substance, mercury nitrates, in turning fur like that of rabbits into felt for hats. There being only a few protections for staff earlier than unions, many turned poisoned and took on bodily and psychological illnesses together with tremors, speech issues, emotional instability and hallucinations.
In lots of variations of Alice in Wonderland, the hatter is the male lead regardless of being a supporting character.* This appears to parallel Musk’s present position within the White Home. And naturally, the purple MAGA hat has performed a distinguished position within the Mad King’s political technique.
Elon Musk, the richest man on this planet, incessantly reveals himself as being mad-hatter-like. He’s the duvet boy for the way unregulated “vulture capitalism” operates. Having poured $290 million into Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign, he’s residing proof that in America, cash should purchase something (particularly since Residents United courtesy of SCOTUS). Sitting fairly within the White Home, he’s having his manner in demolishing the American authorities.
He’s feverishly slashing personnel in all governmental departments from the IRS (fewer consultants to take a look at billionaires’ complicated taxes) to FAA, to those that handle forests to FEMA, USAID and the remainder. Even cash for Alzheimer’s analysis has been stopped in its tracks by his edicts.
He sends his underage ninja warriors with their laptops into governmental companies to hack away at top-secret recordsdata—so many companies he hates as a result of they’ve lawsuits towards a number of of his companies.
He just lately inserted himself and $1.6 million to assist the right-wing decide within the essential judicial election occurring in April within the state of Wisconsin.
He’s strolling proof that in America cash should purchase something. Capitalism is king. Undertaking 2025 reigns.
However Musk shouldn’t be limiting his largesse to the American scene alone. A serious report by NBC entitled “How Elon Musk is boosting far-right politics throughout the globe” tells us that he’s busy taking part in a significant position supporting far-right causes in not less than 18 different nations on six continents world wide.** That is what cash should purchase you.
Most evident is his pushing for the far-right social gathering in Germany’s upcoming election. A celebration that downplays Nazi atrocities and invokes slogans from Hitler’s Brownshirt paramilitaries. A Latin American journalist has known as him a “superhero of the Latin American proper.”
* Hatter (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, p. 4.
** How Elon Musk is boosting far-right politics throughout the globe.
See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifs for the Peoples of the Earth.
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: Alice, representing all of us, appears to be like suspiciously at Trump and Musk holding forth at their Mad Tea Celebration. Composite picture by group member Rosanna Tufts; primarily based on Sir John Tenniel’s unique illustration from 1865. Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
Do you see a relationship between Mad Kings and Mad Hatters? And an software to right now’s political scene world wide? Do you approve of typically utilizing humor and satire to talk fact to energy as we do right here?
Make sure you contribute in methods you’ll be able to to becoming a member of the resistance whether or not by the use of prayers, attending city halls, or calling legislators’ workplaces.
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Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that essentially adjustments the normal notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we will do about them.
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each spiritual and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by which we study to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the reward of and simply Creator.
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