apropos to my departure tomorrow for Iraq: linear thinking gets you places

At my show at Pete's a few weeks ago, I was telling comic Charlie Kasov about the incident in which I tried to convince a deeply-hip hipster in Williamsburg of the value of logic and linear thinking. I gave up when he declared:

"It's LOGIC that got us into the Iraq War!"

Charlie wrote to say:

I was reading the definition of dada art and dadaism on Wikipedia.... My jaw dropped when I read these two lines, which reminded me of that story you told me about the hipster and the Iraq war. Apparently, he was a dadaist.

"Dada thought that reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war, so the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and irrationality."

I kind of want to create an event called the Bedford Mini-Mall Debate Tournament. Or at least a comedy sketch about such an event.