President Trump and fantasy
THE LION, THE WHICH OR THE WARDROBE
There’s a story that was read to us as kids and then we read it to ours and now they read it to theirs and so the story goes on. It is, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – by Oxford don C S Lewis. It is a great christian based myth/allegory but it’s beautifully crafted and in the end the wicked witch is knocked out, the lion [ Aslan] dies and comes back to life and the wardrobe children are more than minions – they are princes and princesses and saints if you will.
Let’s fast forward from Narnia to Washington D C and the inauguration of President Trump today.
Feels like….?
Along with Trump and his billionaire minions are the prayers of Franklin Graham. Some of you will have no idea who that is but he is the cloned son of a once fauned and famous protestant evangelist – a salesman ostensibly – Rev Dr Billy Graham who was like the Protestant Pope in the heady days of Nixon and ML King.
After my swim this morning with Maeve [ necessary after her repaired broken hip and surgery – & doing really well!] I was showering and had this idea and as David Lynch says, when you have an idea WRITE IT DOWN!
Let’s play with C S Lewis.
The snow storm and a never been done before inauguration inside [ in a wardrobe??] where the magic light and the descent into the golden age of dark dawn reversals – cold hearted glee with which witch? The magic turkish delilght is a reject shop copy and the theories of a good world are elevated unapoligetically to replace love, social justice, grace and humilty by billionaires, a cloned evangelist [with a narrowly skewed literalist gospel ]and a narcissistic yellow lion look alike fake news saviour. The people cheer outside in the snow and we wonder who the saviour will be. The light just outside the wardrobe shines a yellow beam on snow and despair while in the wardrobe of doom the jingle of bit coins rings loud in the pockets of glazed eyed scrooges.
Lewis’s “resurrection” of the lion and the salvation assistants – the wardrobe children born of the light on the path – will be the people for “The people have the power” [ Patti Smith ]. The people slowly frozen down to almost down for the count will find the power in their collective born again vision for democracy, decency, humanity and justice born of necessity, born of despair, born of humanity while wisdom will arise in the stress of extremity. And it will be born again over time, times and half a time again and again while despots will die, money will rot and mother earth will roar.
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