If you listen to the propaganda press, these are some of the most important queries of our time.  It feels as if we've fallen down Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole or entered the absurdist plot of a Tom Robbins or Kurt Vonnegut novel.  How can we make sense of our increasingly senseless world?

America's dean of word wizardry, Mark Twain, once quipped, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."  Boy, was he right!  For years we've been bouncing around in a pinball universe designed by Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury.  When the government isn't policing our language or arresting little old grandmothers for engaging in wrongthink, it's busy helping Mexican drug-smugglers hook Americans on Chinese fentanyl and encouraging young boys to chop off their willies.  The Gestapo FBI spends most of its time hunting patriots as "domestic terrorists" and orchestrating elaborate entrapment schemes to justify bloated budgets.  The Josef Mengeles at the CDC work to create new diseases that will require experimental "cures."  The Department of (in)Justice can't stop locking up Americans for their political beliefs while lecturing the country about the importance of thwarting tyranny.  So much insanity now grips the United States that the great dystopian novels of the last century appear downright tame by comparison!