Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.

I taught this Mother Goose poem to my Waldorf kids, which is great fun. We draw faces on hard boiled eggs, build a wall out of their wooden blocks, have Humpty Dumpty climb up the wall, and then fall...and then keep doing it until he breaks. Then we take him to the doctor (I put on my doctor mask) and we try to glue him back together onto a piece of paper. Then we eat him.

What I don't tell my Waldorf kids is that Humpty Dumpty is actually a metaphor for the system. We tried putting the system...every little local, cultural system, on the wall...the wall is imperialism. The system fell off the wall and broke. Which is why all the king's horses and all the king's men are trying to put it together again. All the king's horses and all the king's men wouldn't try to put a silly egg together again.

But no one can put the system back together.

Sorry, Mother Goose if I am misinterpreting Humpty Dumpty, but I think that's the only way it makes sense.

So we'll have to make a new system right? But let's try not to put it on the wall again.