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My Turn: In Through the Looking-Glass, the White Queen offers Alice
a job as her “ lady ’ s - maid, ”with a compensation package of
“ twopence a week, and jam every other day. ”Alice protests
that she doesn ’ t care for jam, and in any case doesn ’ t want any
jam today. The Queen clarifi es, “ You couldn ’ t have it if you did
want it. The rule is, jam to - morrow and jam yesterday — but
never jam to - day. ”Alice, of course, is puzzled by this (though
apparently not at the prospect of the job offer itself ), arguing
that “ it must come sometimes to ‘ jam to - day. ’
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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 ’ ve believed as many
as six impossible things before breakfast. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Off with her head! ”the Queen shouted at the top of
her voice. Nobody moved.
“ Who cares for you? ”said Alice, (she had grown to
her full size by this time.) “ You ’ re nothing but a pack
of cards! ”
hola
Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions
over the country — and a most curious country it was . . .
It ’ s marked out in all directions like a chessboard. . .
“ It ’ s a great huge game of chess that ’ s being
played — all over the world. ”
In a free society like ours, you basically have three choices.
You can leave. You can try to change the laws. Or you can do
neither and implicitly agree to obey the laws. That ’ s a social
contract.
This idea goes all the way back to the trial of Socrates
(469 – 399 bce) in ancient Athens. 2
Despite thinking that the
jury was against him before the trial began, Socrates accepted
the guilty verdict — on the charge of corrupting the youth —
and its terrible penalty: death. But why so? Because he agreed
to live by their rules even without explicitly saying so. He was
born there, raised there, educated there, and protected there.
He even fought in the army defending Athens. He never left
and he never tried to change the laws. In short, Socrates made
a social contract with Athens — an implicit agreement to follow
their laws no matter what the outcome.
But this doesn ’ t apply to Alice. She wasn ’ t born in
Wonderland; she wasn ’ t raised there or educated there. And
she ’ s not an immigrant who moves in willingly — she literally
fell into the place! Of the three options in a free society (leave,
change things, or implicitly agree to obey), Alice is desperately
trying to leave. She does not have an implicit agreement to
obey, so she doesn ’ t have a social contract. She has every right
to use violence against the court.
Lewis Carroll would have known about the trial and death
of Socrates. He was a classically educated Englishman.
last point and then I'm off to the matrix... it has been intimated that Lewis Carroll had a thing for young girls and Alice is a fantasy about a real girl... and much as been said to prove as much... does this put our Alice as victim herself to gropy old men? to what extent does the shield of "but I was abused too" extend to the abuser in the cycle, if at all? redemption involves coming clean and admitting all the wrongs and then paying penance to make it right as much as is possible and then a where necessary a punitive measure is heaped on...and the final step is to forego that sin. I don't see much sorrow (yet) in our Alice. that could rapidly change, but don't expect it to.
hmm
Who is our Alice...Is the basic question
I can't answer that
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I don't think of Alice as one person anymore
It is very difficult to see her as a victim or have any compassion whatsoever
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for me
understood
at some point, people must throw off the shackles of what hand they've been dealt and rise above
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was reviewing this thing: https://cdn.mashreghnews.ir/old/files/fa/news/1392/9/25/459415_804.pdf
Yes ...that puts it perfectly. The choice is up to the person. You can lead the way but they have to "initiate" or jump off the cliff - or down the hole
I have been reading carlos casteneda recently and the whole initiation "cliff idea" has me wrapped up in a riddle
I don't know if it relates but still...it's like going down the rabbit hole searching for truth that the soul desires
