LETTER

More on Trump, Rasto Havlina-style

 

I enjoy Mr Rastro Havlina’s many thoughtful letters, and his most recent one is no exception. He compares Trump to the German mythological character, Till Eulenspiegel. I looked up this unfamiliar (as Havlina says) character. Here’s Wikipedia:

“In the stories, he is presented as a trickster who plays practical jokes on his contemporaries, exposing vices at every turn, greed and folly, hypocrisy and foolishness. In these stories, anything that can go wrong in communication does go wrong due to the disparity in consciousness. And it is not the exception that communication gives rise to complications; rather, it is the rule. As a model of communication, Till Eulenspiegel is the inherent, unpredictable factor of complication that can throw any communication, whether with oneself or others, into disarray. These irritations, amounting to conflicts, have the potential of effecting mental paradigm changes and increases in the level of consciousness. Although craftsmen are featured as the principal victims of his pranks, neither the nobility nor the pope is exempt from being affected by him.

“Many others of Till's pranks are scatological in nature, and involve tricking people into touching, smelling, or even eating Till's excrement.”

Brilliant!  Pres. Trump in a nutshell!

Peter Casals
Aylmer