I love this kind of pattern recognition. The choice of the name "Alice" was generally very consequential, here's some more references for you:

"Go ask Alice"

It's a book. But it's also a line in the song White Rabbit. The book is about drugs.

In LC's time opium and cocaine were freely available, possibly drug cannabis too.

Hidden inside the narrative of the famous book also is a pretty pointed reference to the absurdities cooked up by politicians, but also obliquely refers to other seeming paradoxes that also relate to deception, the Red Queen.

Oh my god and the Red Queen and Alice also, Resident Evil. Practically anything that refers to Alice is goddamned fascinating.

But the overarching theme of this absurdity also related to the emergent branch of physics called Quantum physics, which is full of counterintuitive, alice in wonderland style madness.

The interesting thing is that these paradoxes are all around us if we look. The very notion of Antifragility is based on the principle that without stress, dynamic systems become fragile, and so it thus follows, seemingly illogically, that deliberately diving into stress (eg, cold shock therapy) actually reduces your nervous system's ability to raise that antifragility margin to encompass far more disaster and in doing so, usually discover even more weirdness about how reality works.

Of course, rabbitholes are not what we usually are being paid to explore. Until the rest of the world sees the value in these things we have to try and contain that imagination and excitement a bit.