Malice Towards Alice

It's one of my favorite sections of Central Park, between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Loeb Boathouse, there is a bronze sculpture of Alice and the Mad Tea Party formed by José de Creeft and erected in 1959. It's a charming piece of art depicting a scene from a well-beloved book, well worth a side trip on the way to or from the Met. Recently, some lunatic plotted to blow up the statue.

At first, I thought it was a QAnon freak, given the 'movement's' recent obsession with Central Park's 'Mole Children' rescue. The Anons have long incorporated imagery from Lewis Carroll's books, often filtered through other works such as The Matrix, and 'Follow the White Rabbit' has long been a catchphrase of the conspiracy fantasy:





At first, 'follow the white rabbit' seemed merely to refer to the deep dive away from the mainstream narrative into the depths of conspiracy theory, but recently, it has taken on a new meaning, with the nutters believing that 'white rabbit' refers to the chemical structure of adrenochrome, the oxidized adrenaline that they believe is the drug of choice/elixir of youth used by the sinister cabal that secretly rules the world.

Early on in the span of the conspiracy theory, in typically subliterate fashion, the 'Anons' also used the phrase 'Alice and Wonderland' to refer to Hillary Clinton's cozy relationship with the human rights abusing Saudi regime... never mind that these very same Anons are totally cool with this shit.

Getting back to our Mad Hatter Bomber, there hasn't been enough evidence to conclusively link him with the Q-nutters, suggestive as the circumstantial evidence seems. The guy apparently had anger issues regarding his parents and ex-girlfriend, complete with violent ideation. If the Q nonsense is what finally melted his brain, it wouldn't be the first instance of such radicalization.