Lionel your wish came true. We didn’t get the flesh-eating bacteria but we did get the WuFlu death-dealing, economy destroying virus. Certainly has kept some of those boring subjects off-line for the past year. Keep at it, we who can’t string words together with your style depend on you.
chris sullivan
2 years ago
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that the drive to attack anything that might make ANYONE feel bad is just simply COWARDICE – an inability to face up to any challenges to a fragile little ego. It takes hard work and not a little courage to work through and evaluate one’s cultural inheritance (and ideally every other culture’s) and to attempt to liberate one’s consciousness. As Jung says – it is a lifelong work in progress. How many people actually reach Socrates first level of knowledge/learning – to realize that a person actually knows very little ?? Like you I have run out of patience attempting to dialogue with ignorant people who dont yet know what they dont know.
Keep with your brilliant perceptive writing and know that the more shrill might be the response the more cherished will be the response from the rest of us who DO know how little we know.
andy thompson
2 years ago
Excellent article and how frustrating it must be for authors these days. Think your right about the plague though.
Dean Baker
2 years ago
great to see this – hope those who object experience an eruption of ‘roids they attribute to unrecognized cultural deficiency of which they are the vacuous source
Cynthia Neville
2 years ago
May you prosper in these awful times. Your fine work is on my bookshelves and will remain tnere as long as I live.
Richard Ross
1 year ago
Brave woman and an entertaining and insightful writer. I only wish she hadn’t said, “It’s time to return to valuing…. anarchy, wickedness, and heresy”. I fear that she sounds as if she’s admitting that those 3 qualities do apply to ‘cultural appropriation’ and to any honest discussion of topics that touch on race or sexuality.
Lionel your wish came true. We didn’t get the flesh-eating bacteria but we did get the WuFlu death-dealing, economy destroying virus. Certainly has kept some of those boring subjects off-line for the past year. Keep at it, we who can’t string words together with your style depend on you.
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that the drive to attack anything that might make ANYONE feel bad is just simply COWARDICE – an inability to face up to any challenges to a fragile little ego. It takes hard work and not a little courage to work through and evaluate one’s cultural inheritance (and ideally every other culture’s) and to attempt to liberate one’s consciousness. As Jung says – it is a lifelong work in progress. How many people actually reach Socrates first level of knowledge/learning – to realize that a person actually knows very little ?? Like you I have run out of patience attempting to dialogue with ignorant people who dont yet know what they dont know.
Keep with your brilliant perceptive writing and know that the more shrill might be the response the more cherished will be the response from the rest of us who DO know how little we know.
Excellent article and how frustrating it must be for authors these days. Think your right about the plague though.
great to see this – hope those who object experience an eruption of ‘roids they attribute to unrecognized cultural deficiency of which they are the vacuous source
May you prosper in these awful times. Your fine work is on my bookshelves and will remain tnere as long as I live.
Brave woman and an entertaining and insightful writer. I only wish she hadn’t said, “It’s time to return to valuing…. anarchy, wickedness, and heresy”. I fear that she sounds as if she’s admitting that those 3 qualities do apply to ‘cultural appropriation’ and to any honest discussion of topics that touch on race or sexuality.