The secret rules of Wonderland

Tonight I read some more in The Story of Alice. Carroll has already died at this point, and the book is exploring how the idea of "Wonderland" continued to develop after its creator was gone. Here are a few of the things I read, taken from three successive pages:

Wonderland – a place that gave the impression of being chaotically lawless, while secretly working according to its own rules (p. 433)

cartoon strips that ranged from the whimsical (‘The Doings of those Darling Ducks’) to the jarringly racist (‘That Naughty Nigger and his Bunny Bimbo’) (p. 434)

Playfully reversing the tourist cliché ‘See Naples and die’, a magazine advertisement in 1903 offered ‘See BLACKPOOL and Live’ (p. 435)

That first excerpt, about Wonderland "secretly working according to its own rules," made me think of "The world is bound with secret knots," which came up in the sync-saturated comments on "Just-ice and Al-ice."

After reading, I checked YouTube. The first video in my feed, published just minutes before I saw it, was Ragtime Rev performing the minstrel song "Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Neber Die." (Our algorithms, ourselves, right?) This obviously syncs with the Nigger reference quoted above, and also with the idea that one should not see Naples and die but rather see BLACKPOOL and live.

The second video in the feed, published several hours before, was a discussion of Carroll's Wonderland by The Resurrectionists, including this reference to wonderlands working by their own secret rules:

That is the hidden logic of upside-down worlds. They look chaotic on the surface, but underneath they are doing something very precise.

This very closely parallels the first excerpt from The Story of Alice above. It is perhaps not a terribly original thought, but the time factor still makes it a noteworthy sync.