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Thought For the Day: Satire Is A Sort of Glass, Wherein Beholders Do Generally Discover Everybody’s Face But Their Own
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Beholder, Chief Reason, Discover, Face, Glass, Jonathan Swift, Offended, Reception, Satire, The Battle of the Books, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: At Least One Way of Measuring the Freedom of Any Society Is the Amount of Comedy That Is Permitted
“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some … Continue reading
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Tagged Amount, Comedy, Eric Idle, Freedom, Healthy Society, Measure, One Way, Permit, Repress, Satire, Society, Thought For the Day
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Parasitic Pathogens
Parasitic Pathogensby Michael DoyleParasitic pathogensEffect our societyWhether it’s the lunacy Of the politically correctOr the social constructionThat derives from mass anxietyOf tribalistic social identityDiversity, identity, and equityEach seeks allegiance to its ideologyBad ideas escape the laboratoryWe should never surrender to … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegiance, Anxiety, De Minimis, Diversity, Epistemology, Equity, Identity, Ideology, Lies, Lunacy, Noise, Nomological, Parasitic Pathogens, Poetry and Poems, Politically Correct, Post-Modernism, Reason, Satire, Social Construction, Social Identity, Society, Steady March, Surrender, Tabula Rasa, Tribal, Truth, Universal Truths, Woke
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Thackeray – Jonathan Swift
Interestingly, despite multiple searches, I came up empty on additional material about this essay written by Thackeray pertaining to Jonathan Swift. I will say that the essay was deemed sufficient to include it in the Harvard Classics and that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Essay, Harvard Classics, Humorist, Jonathan Swift, Satire, Thackeray
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Holy Willie’s Prayer – Robert Burns
The Ploughman Poet and Bard of Ayrshire, Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist who lived from January 25, 1759 to July 21, 1796. Although celebrated worldwide, Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, Harvard Classics, Holy Willie's Prayer, Kirk, Poetry, Robert Burns, Satire
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