not an idiot's tale, but a tale told by an idiot

[Terrance]

Richard F. says, 

  [[[Perhaps  Mr. Bush has imagined himself to be strutting about the
world 
  stage issuing demands and delivering threats and getting 
  nothing but catcalls from the audience with one particularly 
  obnoxious gesture from North Korea. This guy loses much more 
  credibility we're all going to be in trouble.]]]


But the idiot's tale is not the tale of an idiot king strutting his hour
upon the stage, but a tale told by an idiot. Perhaps we may take some
solace in that. Perhaps, sitting in the theater all these years, blowing
our kazoos at fools and kings and theatre managers we have already
derived this consolation---that our mortification and our grievous
disillusionment regarding the criminally insane behavior of our
world-leaders and world-compatriots are unjustified. For they are based
on what we have been watching on the screen, on the wall, in the cave,
in the theater. And we have abandoned ourselves to the flickering
lights, the Baconian idols, the pornography of life---to illusion. In
reality our Presidents and Kings, our fellow citizens, have not sunk to
the level of idiots because they had never risen so high as we imagined.
Perhaps the tale has never been more than an idiot's furious tragedy
with a few sounds of laughter from the audience. Perhaps all we can do
now is wait for the silence of God and Godot.