It’s also the plot of “Rhinoceros,” Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 classic of the avant-garde now playing at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. It’s a familiar dynamic when an extremist movement starts to pervade and take over a society, and some of its hallmarks might have a ring of truth today. As more and more people become transformed into something unrecognizable, some extreme new movement that travels as a herd, others scramble to minimize and normalize what’s happening, rationalizing it away as an understandable and somehow sensible development rather than the end of civilization that it seems to be. The world is going mad, and no one seems to care.
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