Bugs Bunny: The Trickster
Then we have Bugs Bunny - the trickster. Not a monster - just monstrously annoying. "What's up Doc?" was his mantra! He has the ability to be everywhere - you can't escape him. And he is always smiling, peering, interfering! More of a clown than Pennywise in the sense of being entertaining or doing tricks!
Tricksters abound on the internet and many are malevolent: creating AI false images, scamming, pretending to be someone or something in order to gather money from unsuspecting others. These are tricksters with no moral boundaries and only a desire to harm, confound and dismay, not to mention rob and cheat and steal and slander.
Bugs Bunny can be cool, graceful, flippant, insouciant, aggressive, arrogant and thuggish depending on the situation and his particular incarnation. Sometimes Bugs-the Trickster is a fun-loving, feisty personality, other times controlled or a city slicker. At times a tormentor and audacious. Bugs Bunny is quite a combination and kaleidoscope of traits, just like the clown: a spectrum with merriment on one end and terror on the other. And on a personal note: how does he eat all those raw carrots? Couldn’t do it!
THE JESTER ROLE: Bugs Bunny also brings in the role of the jester: the creature who tempers the autocrat and the psychopath, who typically lack any sense of humor. The jester is a trickster and a master of legerdemain. The cunning is put to good use as it benefits the entire kingdom, the entire nation. It puts outer rails on the domain of the ruler, but does it with humor and misdirection, but in such a way that those who witness it know the ruler is being managed, constricted, made consistent with the rule of law even though the rule is typically unconscious of the benefits of rule, outside his own rules, that is!
Then we have Bugs Bunny - the trickster. Not a monster - just monstrously annoying. "What's up Doc?" was his mantra! He has the ability to be everywhere - you can't escape him. And he is always smiling, peering, interfering! More of a clown than Pennywise in the sense of being entertaining or doing tricks!
Tricksters abound on the internet and many are malevolent: creating AI false images, scamming, pretending to be someone or something in order to gather money from unsuspecting others. These are tricksters with no moral boundaries and only a desire to harm, confound and dismay, not to mention rob and cheat and steal and slander.
Bugs Bunny can be cool, graceful, flippant, insouciant, aggressive, arrogant and thuggish depending on the situation and his particular incarnation. Sometimes Bugs-the Trickster is a fun-loving, feisty personality, other times controlled or a city slicker. At times a tormentor and audacious. Bugs Bunny is quite a combination and kaleidoscope of traits, just like the clown: a spectrum with merriment on one end and terror on the other. And on a personal note: how does he eat all those raw carrots? Couldn’t do it!
THE JESTER ROLE: Bugs Bunny also brings in the role of the jester: the creature who tempers the autocrat and the psychopath, who typically lack any sense of humor. The jester is a trickster and a master of legerdemain. The cunning is put to good use as it benefits the entire kingdom, the entire nation. It puts outer rails on the domain of the ruler, but does it with humor and misdirection, but in such a way that those who witness it know the ruler is being managed, constricted, made consistent with the rule of law even though the rule is typically unconscious of the benefits of rule, outside his own rules, that is!
Then we have Bugs Bunny - the trickster. Not a monster - just monstrously annoying. "What's up Doc?" was his mantra! He has the ability to be everywhere - you can't escape him. And he is always smiling, peering, interfering! More of a clown than Pennywise in the sense of being entertaining or doing tricks!
Tricksters abound on the internet and many are malevolent: creating AI false images, scamming, pretending to be someone or something in order to gather money from unsuspecting others. These are tricksters with no moral boundaries and only a desire to harm, confound and dismay, not to mention rob and cheat and steal and slander.
Bugs Bunny can be cool, graceful, flippant, insouciant, aggressive, arrogant and thuggish depending on the situation and his particular incarnation. Sometimes Bugs-the Trickster is a fun-loving, feisty personality, other times controlled or a city slicker. At times a tormentor and audacious. Bugs Bunny is quite a combination and kaleidoscope of traits, just like the clown: a spectrum with merriment on one end and terror on the other. And on a personal note: how does he eat all those raw carrots? Couldn’t do it!
THE JESTER ROLE: Bugs Bunny also brings in the role of the jester: the creature who tempers the autocrat and the psychopath, who typically lack any sense of humor. The jester is a trickster and a master of legerdemain. The cunning is put to good use as it benefits the entire kingdom, the entire nation. It puts outer rails on the domain of the ruler, but does it with humor and misdirection, but in such a way that those who witness it know the ruler is being managed, constricted, made consistent with the rule of law even though the rule is typically unconscious of the benefits of rule, outside his own rules, that is!