Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Waste of time
There's a whole pile of writing and talking about the newly found essay by Shelley. Sounds deep and wise, so I decided to read it.
The actual essay is here.
Not deep, not wise. Pretty much "War's bad, mkay?" except that the syntax is all fucked up so it says "Bad m'war is kay?" Someone named BURDETT (all caps) seems to be advertised as the proper alternative to M'Bad Is Kaywar. Whoever BURDETT (all caps) was, he didn't end M'is Kay Warbad.
If you want to read deep and wise from that era, read Swift. He got everything right, and all of his wisdom is still PRECISELY AND LITERALLY APPLICABLE today. No metaphors needed. The same people are still doing the same things.
Later thought: I'm genuinely surprised that Swift hasn't been totally banned. Way too much truth. It's hard to search this on Google because a newer Swift pretty much saturates everything, but the real Swift doesn't seem to be a prime target for libraries or schools.
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