Yes, tragedy and comedy, but also mystery,
for whence comes the authority of the fool and the storyteller,
if not from spirit - from places unknown and transcendent - thus
 spirit born activism finds its essence in celebration and theater.

Did you know that America's deepest modern thinkers (the post-transcentalist mind)
are all cartoonists?

"Are we having fun yet", spoken everywhere now, but born first in the strange and
wonderous mind of Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead.

Or, what about Walt Kelly's "We have met the enemy and he is us"?

Where would we be without Robin Williams and George Carlin, and all their brothers
and sisters whose greatest gift is to make us laugh at ourselves until we cry?

We will never really advance our political street theater until we learn to make fun
of ourselves first!

so many possibilities