Lingle’s Super Monkey
November 17, 2007 12:07 am > Superferry, Raphael O'SunaMany people have heard the story of how certain older cultures caught a particular kind of monkey. The monkey’s favorite nuts were placed in a container, with a hole large enough for the monkey to put through his hand in order to get the nuts. But the hole was not large enough to allow free passage of a fist clutching nuts. Since the monkey would not let go, he was trapped.Our governor has the Superferry caught in her claw. She does not understand the trap she is in. The worse thing for power is to have an issue of the people become a symbol which holds and condenses force and energy. The Superferry has the potential to attract all of those who have already felt outraged by change. It has the potential to excite counterforce and blowback of great magnitude.
The governor, at this moment, has been lulled into a spot of calm. And yet the storm is gathering. Both her career and future appear to be imperiled by forces joining together and proposing actions, and by mixtures of flammable emotions.
When a figurehead of power misjudges a situation, disruptions can occur in civility, commercialism and constitutional property rights. Messy showdowns with powerless people usually are the result of loss of vision and no wisdom. Such situations can brand as unreliable and incompetent someone in power.
It takes but one peek behind the curtain that hides power’s vulnerability and insensitiveness to embolden the righteously indignant.
The governor thinks that she will be confronting civil disobedience regarding the Superferry. But what if she meets instead, a “monster from the Id?”
– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku
