Especially as time goes on and more and more people give up on their fellow human's health

as more Americans turn into rhinos every gd day

@@MadAboutBrows Is it just me, or is it getting even worse lately?

Assuming in SF they were assuming it is the conservatives who are the rhinoceroses. Couldn't possibly be liberals.

@@AsstVillageIdiot The play is a critique of peoples acquiescent attitudes about the rise of fascism. The beasts are Nazi's, the humans are thinkers.

@@AnarchistConviction Ionesco is from....Romania, and was deeply anticommunist as well. He was clear about this in interviews. You don't have to tell me the standard leftist mythology, thanks. I'm pretty familiar with it. You should be more suspicious of things that "everybody know."

​@@AsstVillageIdiot deeply anticommunist he may have been but it was the fascists that drove him out of Romania.

@@Mariuj72 You will notice my phrase "as well," please.

How did it go mate?

We probably need it now more than ever.

12ft Narcoleptic Panda and now we need it even more.

They had the one guy straight up kiss nixon, not that watered down lol. I do agree it's scarily similar, the angry worker in the second act sounds just like some of my friends today.

Capitol riots, or BLM?

@@CHowes8055 I know right? blm are definitely the real fascists. you're so deep

@@soph1111e …and the mountain is high!😂😂😂

Even better play. Highly recommend.

Sort of. It was written as an allegory for the rise of fascism. One day, the people of the city see a rhinoceros charging down the street. I generates much discussion, and is universally held by the citizens as an abnormal and troubling development. Soon, word gets out that the rhinoceros was once a person, and that they had turned into a rhinoceros. More and more people begin to turn into rhinoceros, and as their numbers increase, the citizens get used to them, and start discussing how they feel about the changing. Over time, people open up to the idea of turning into rhinoceros. They start to see the positive sides of what they once thought was bestial and horrifying. Those who stand their ground against the development are ridiculed as closed minded, and accused of wanting to close off any debate over the rhinoceros issue. Finally, the hero becomes the last human left in the city, the rest of society having decided the transformation is on the whole a positive development. Again, the inspiration was the meteoric rise of fascism. The Nazi party was a fringe movement until 1929 - by 1932, they held 37% of the seats in parliament, and by 1933 they had seized total control over the Government, banned all other political parties, and started implementing the totalitarian tools of total control over the life of the individual. This experience, to those who did not “open their minds” to the fringe fascist rhetoric about Jewish conspiracies, stabs in the back during WWI, and a nation defined by race (or völk) felt isolated, as more and more people gradually opened their minds to what only a few years prior seemed bestial, and as their complaints about this grotesqueness were tolerated less and less by everyday citizens who “wanted to hear both sides.” It’s a powerful play about isolation in the face of a society that’s gone horribly wrong - about feeling like the only sane person left as society descends. I didn’t know it had been adapted as a movie, let alone one with the great Gene Wilder, until today!

Squim This is a brilliant summary dude

Squim The play was written in 1959. My mother grew up in Romania. The likelihood this is about Nazis rather than the rise of Communism is very slim. Otherwise nicely summarized.

www.thecrimson.com/article/1978/3/9/an-interview-with-eugene-ionesco-pat/

@@Ooana Nice try really. The work could be easily inspired by the rise of the iron guard in Romania, during the 30s. Ionesco was not in Romania to witness what you call the rise of Communism, but your mother was, so you are most likely biased. The article you posted is rather cold-war in nature. Ionesco was equally disgusted by blind conformism on both sides of the fence. Nice try, however. :)

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