12-05-2017, 12:03 PM
I do feel my life has become unreasonably complex now that I'm allowed to vote. Also, being freed from the necessity to bear children until one kills you really does lead irrevocably to hedonism. I believe that if I wanted to I could even marry a black man these days -- not like in the good old days, when women did what they were told and so did those damned Negros. How I long for the simple life!
The "classics" are dominated by the writings of rich white men and the occasional rector's daughter who had the decency not to waste an Oxford education entirely by scribbling it away, but considerately died before menopause rendered her entirely useless. The book as form indeed reflected the zeitgeist of the time -- a time in which the lives of the idle rich were glorified as the ideal, when conquest and domination over the Other was de rigueur, and when true hardship was a handy narrative device but not something one should dwell on as being the business of right-minded folk.
The zeitgeist of today, in a world where borders are intangible and time does not always run in a straight line, does not necessarily have room for perfection. Considering the amount of debate that the classics still generate, it's fair to say that they didn't attain perfection either. I find that preconceived aesthetics are often dull and stale -- a la MFA panel poetry-by-numbers -- and would recommend experiment, error, reflection, correction, subversion and outright rebellion.
And get your kids vaccinated, you dumbasses.
The "classics" are dominated by the writings of rich white men and the occasional rector's daughter who had the decency not to waste an Oxford education entirely by scribbling it away, but considerately died before menopause rendered her entirely useless. The book as form indeed reflected the zeitgeist of the time -- a time in which the lives of the idle rich were glorified as the ideal, when conquest and domination over the Other was de rigueur, and when true hardship was a handy narrative device but not something one should dwell on as being the business of right-minded folk.
The zeitgeist of today, in a world where borders are intangible and time does not always run in a straight line, does not necessarily have room for perfection. Considering the amount of debate that the classics still generate, it's fair to say that they didn't attain perfection either. I find that preconceived aesthetics are often dull and stale -- a la MFA panel poetry-by-numbers -- and would recommend experiment, error, reflection, correction, subversion and outright rebellion.
And get your kids vaccinated, you dumbasses.
It could be worse