Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Continuing on the WholeOfSociety
Trying to trace the earliest usage of "Whole-of-society" in the proper form. GoogleBooks doesn't search by exact year, but it does divide by centuries. So far I'm not seeing the trademarked phrase before 2000. The three words sometimes occur in a sentence, but it's clearly incidental, not the official war cry.
With one HIGHLY RELEVANT exception.
From Ibsen's An enemy of society, 1900.
DR STOCKMANN. But they'll get the worst of it, I can promise them. Henceforth, every day I'll throw myself into the breach in the Messenger; bombard them with one article after another. ASLAKSEN. Yes, but look here... BILLING. Hurrah! There'll be war, there'll be war! DR STOCKMANN. I will smite them to the earth. I will crush them, level all their entrenchments to the ground before the eyes of all right-thinking men. I'll do it. ASLAKSEN. But all the same be reasonable, doctor; proceed with moderation... BILLING. Not at all, not at all; don't spare for dynamite. DR STOCKMANN (going on imperturbably) For, remember that henceforth it is not merely a question of water works and sewers. No, the whole of society must be cleansed, disinfected. BILLING. There sounds the word of salvation! DR STOCKMANN. All the old bunglers must be got rid of, you understand. And that in every department! Such endless vistas have opened out before me today, It was not all clear to me until now, but now I will right everything. It is the young, vigorous banner-bearers we must seek, my friends; we must have now captains for all the outposts.Sounds mighty fucking familiar. Stockmann was a Public Death Officer. The direct hellfather of ALL modern Captains At The Outposts. So the WoSovirus first entered the Public Death profession in 1900, then remained latent for a century as it spread around the world. Finally in 2005, after complete infection, the WoSovirus turned the infected officials into satanic genocidal monsters.
Labels: #WholeOfSociety, endless hell
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