It refers to the movie the Caine Mutiny. In the movie, the Humphrey Bogart character, Captain Queeg exhibits (what I now realize are timelessly classic) symptoms of chronic stress and paranoia. Ultimately this leads to a mutiny due to a particularly dangerous command decision, and a trial of the other officers. The writing and acting provide a sophisticated insight into the layout of the mechanisms of mental illness propagating in an individual, and make that insight accessible to the lay viewer through the counterpoint of interactions.
When my mind stumbled onto the comparison, searching as it was to categorize the insanity before me, there was a light that went off. Something real last week about how times may change but humans don't at all has passed. Phones, computers, media, it makes no difference to how the act unfolds.
There is always a promise of a tomorrow that's worse, that much can be said. The only question, what tomorrow's metaphorical strawberries will be.
