George, McMurphy and Democracy

As Mr McMurphy says in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

“So this is how you work this democratic bullshit - hell’s bells!"

You Gotta be asleep to believe it

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guQw3nSkXMY

 

The Cuckoo

"A cuckoo’s nest may be just a playful name for a mad house ... but the common association of cuckoos and insanity comes from the baffling and brutal behaviour of cuckoo’s themselves. In nature cuckoo’s lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, depositing one egg per nest. It is a process by which an outcast becomes a tyrant … "

The hope, sorrow, indeed beauty of Ken Kesey’s book - at the end out of a whole population, only one will finally break through the glass to a larger world.