[LWVNM Action] Theater of the Absurd in Texas and California

[Janie McGuigan]

I saw your Letter to the Editor.
 It is great. Go Dick.

 *Janie*
Janie McGuigan
janiemc07 at gmail.com
505-918-1884



On Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 1:27 PM Richard Mason via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> *My personal letter in the ABQ Journal - Sunday, August 24, 2025*
>
>
> *Theater of the Absurd in Texas and California*
>
> In the 1960s I was a fan of the Theater of the Absurd. This genre
> presented plays that brought ideas to the absurd level to illustrate the
> absurdity of those ideas.
>
> An example of this genre was Eugene Ionesco’s, “Rhinoceros”. In this play
> people allow themselves to be turned into rhinoceroses because others are
> turning into rhinoceroses and they are afraid of not conforming. Ionesco
> grew up in Romania as the Nazi party was gaining power and he saw rational
> people turning into Nazis.
>
>
> Well thank you Texas and California politicians for illustrating the
> absurdity of allowing politicians to draw their own districts. Maybe now
> people in New Mexico and elsewhere will recognize this absurdity and demand
> independent redistricting commissions.
>
>
>
> Richard Mason
> Rio Rancho
>
>
> By the way, Ionesco's play was made into a movie by the American Film
> Theater. It stars Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. Seems sort of relevant today.
> Probably available on Netflix
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