Let me bring to your attention to the postmodern political theatre of the Wizard of New Zealand.  He is often called simply "the wiz.".   For those of you unable to visit New Zealand  and see the wiz in person, you might visit his web site as an interesting diversion. (see below).  

The wiz has been made the official wizard of New Zealand  by a proclamation from the Prime Minister, and in New Zealand he is immensely popular and well known.  He enjoys a status in the city of Christchurch not unlike enjoyed by Emperor Norton enjoyed in San Francisco at the turn of the century. (Emperor Norton, perhaps you recall, dazzled San Franciscans  by declaring himself Emperor of the USA, printing his own money, and he was wined and dined by the wealthiest.)

Prior to his incarnation as New Zeland's official wizard in the early 1970's, the wiz was an ordinary  lecturer in English at Canterbury University.  However, he now performs daily in the city square of Christchurch, complete with long flowing beard, pointed hat, and flowing black gown.  One of the first feats (he prefers to call them - miracles) that he performed on becoming a wizard, was to resolve in part the North-South dilemma by turning the world upside down.  No mean feat!  He has been selling maps of the world, with the southern hemisphere at the top for more than 20 years, and I recommend all therapists have one in their office for obvious reasons.  They can be purchased, along with other paraphernalia
through his web site (again, see below).

With regards to war and revolution the wizard has formed an army called Alf's Imperial Army. (ALF is an acronym for Action for Love and Freedom). Alf only fight people who invite them, and when they do their weapons consist of rolled up newspapers, flour bombs, and ... incendiaries of similar ilk. Alf's Army fit themselves out in full British 1870's military regalia - red tunics with white webbing and pith helmets; as a statement of contrast to most demonstrators and protesters who usually wear drab 'anti-imperialist' outfits with Che Guevera berets, and the wizard thinks they present themselves far too seriously.  (Again, below are listed some sites where you should be able to find the Wizard's not-so-secret plans for Alf's Imperial Army to invade America (having already conquered New Zeland, and a branch of the Army established in London).

The wizard describes himself as a "postmodern bull fighter", on the basis that all metanarratives are bulls**t; and there is an art in tossing out alternate ideas which elicits a charge from the politically correct and the 'knowers of truth' which the nimble bull fighter will artfully dodge to the cheers of other fun-loving skeptics and believers in rival truths.  By
presenting political issues within the theatre of the absurd, a large audience or media attention is drawn, and then it is not so difficult to expose the willingness of various 'truth-holders' to resort to oppressive and repressive acts of violence.  The wizard claims that in a postmodern world, scientists will be replaced by wizards in the mediation of human
affairs.

The wizard is also famous, for those who have followed him, for his 'rain dances'. On four occasions he has been invited to perform rain dances where there have been long droughts, sometimes for several years (like inTamworth Australia); and each time it has rained. (I think he is as mystified about this as anyone.) He asked to be made the official wizard of
Australia by way of a proclamation from the Prime Minister if he succeeded in Tamworth; and was assured efforts would be made.  People obviously thought it would never happen, for it was later dismissed as chance.  The wizard wisely said that he refuses to do anymore rain dances as he is not appreciated.  As you might well appreciate, these performances have certainly elicited a lot of bull to dodge from some church groups.  If you are ever in Christchurch New Zealand  a visit to the city square is well worth it, as the wizard can be seen almost daily engaging in the most amazing bull fights - he has truly realised Foucault's dictum to become a living work of art.

However, the wizard was not actually  born kiwi.   He's a native Australian, and began his politics of the absurd as a student leader in Sidney in the 1960's.  He has written that one of the lens' that we can view politics through is the varied responses people make to anomie.  Some retreat into traditional values; others get angry and urge people to join the revolution to overthrow the evil empire; while others will lose themselves in compulsive conformity to peer fashion; but the postmodern bullfighter treats the world as a cosmic or absurd joke.  He points to the response of the Czechs to the invasion of the Warsaw Pact in the 1960's - the newspaper editorial satirised "the glorious Russians and their allies", thanking them for
coming and showing them how to govern properly.  He favours British humour, as he
believes that it has a long tradition of making politics fun, which is only matched by the plays of Aristophanes, who obviously realised his own civilisation was quite mad.

The wizard sees himself as offering a form of social therapy, (although I can't find any indication that he is aware of Fred Newman and Lois Holzman's work), and frequently says what he does is a form of psychodrama. He wants to blow the world up with fun powder. For those attracted to the idea that highlighting the absurdities of our global and national anomalies can be a tool for change I suggest a visit to his site when you have some time.
www.wizard.gen.nz/
www.nzine.co.nz/articles/Wizard/
The wizard invasion of America begins at:
http://www.212.net/