New Zealand Arts Funder Rejects Shakespeare as ‘Imperialism’

Progressives have long been engaged in a campaign to ban or obliterate every thing that softens, enriches and refines life. Now stopping to allow a woman to pass through a door is a hostile act of oppression. Wanting to teach your son how to be a man is teaching them to be a monster.

They want to erase anything they did not create. There is the implicit acknowledgement that what they would offer has less power: Modern plays have less appeal than Shakespeare. The undergraduate bromide political polemics in the MSM shed less light and warmth than philosophers. (Modern philosophy is political polemic.)

Art is now meant to ‘confront’ (read that as ‘insult’). It does not seek to give form to ideas that stir our hearts but cannot make sense of – cannot find the words to do the feelings justice. How many of you have not spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find just the right way to say something, not content that you know what you mean. If you know it why do you need to say it? Or to show us something in a new way. Nope. It is meant to denigrate certain beliefs, it is meant to disgust, and because art is now the establishment, it is meant to signal that certain ideas are now no longer acceptable.

Only a few years ago the left used to think they were making a point when they pointed to the expression ‘Illegal immigrant’ and exclaim “No person can be illegal!” Well that was just silly since no one said a person was illegal any more that a person was legal. A person ‘legal’? Who talks like that? No, it was a shorthand for an immigrant whose immigration was illegal, and there is an opposite for that.

But the left actually believes that people who have illegitimate ideas are illegitimate people. If their ideas are to be gotten rid of it is fine for the people to be gotten rid of. Always with the projection, huh?

So with everything higher removed they expect people to be content with the far inferior output of their cultural agents. They might think that if you take away Shakespeare and Chaucer and Yeats then the affection they would have won will simply be transferred to something else that is on offer. As if we had discrete amounts of passion that are divvied up according to what recipients are available. Naturally they are wrong, and the vast measure of a sublime satisfaction by which Virginia Wolf surpasses Clemmie Ford, or Giotto’s Crucifixion surpasses Piss Christ, would be denied to you. In fact, they cannot see that there is a difference since destroying the former is no injury.

So it is an intellectual landscape more or less equivalent to the brutal, crushing, cold, corpse-grey monoliths with windows like empty eye sockets but which seem to be crowding around and listening to your every word – that is what they want us to measure ourselves against. Like a mirror but where all the people are the reflection or a more real world they are creating.

And “Bad Cattitude” revels in the ditching of Capitals.

you see a bit of that around

not good.

New Scientist does New Science.
Bonus: Lieawatha Warren and Rachel Dolezal are off the hook.

At a time when the vacuum tubes in radios and radar were adversely effected
by bumps and thumps, coming up with a mass produceable miniaturised tube
which could handle a 20,000g firing shock and work at 10,000 rpm is perhaps the greatest single innovation of WW2.

Was that a miniaturised metal envelope vacuum tube?
Was it some sort of ancestor of the Nuvistor

Delta Asays:
October 18, 2022 at 9:52 am
Mark Latham:

Pat Cummins Hypocrisy
The Australian cricket captain has forced Cricket Australia to abandon a $40 million sponsorship from Alinta Energy because Cummins says they pollute too much.
But not long ago Cummins was the lead actor in Alinta’s advertising campaign on a good coin.
Has he given that money back to save the planet?
Has Cummins also abandoned his $15 million Eastern Suburbs mansion home, which burns enough energy to keep an African village alive?
Or has he stopped flying around the world on huge player contracts, burning carbon big-time?
Pat pockets plenty of money for himself while denying resources to help junior players have a game of cricket.
His hypocrisy can be smelt from the boundary fence.

Cummins is a creep. I’ve had to give up watching union because of its wokeness now cricket is almost gone. The thing I hate most is that he can bowl a ball; other than that, he is stupid but his dumb view will give support to alarmism and influence kids. Fuck him.

Bruce Lehrmann missed six phone calls from his GIRLFRIEND the night he allegedly raped Brittany Higgins – as prosecution and defence cases FINISH with the jury soon to retire to make up its mind

Prosecutors are closing their case against ex-political staffer Bruce Lehrmann
He is accused of raping then-colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House
He has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent
On Monday afternoon, the prosecution called Senator Linda Reynolds to stand
She was accused of interfering in trial by asking for a transcript of evidence
She told the court she did not think texting defence lawyer was ‘inappropriate’
Court heard Ms Higgins told her boss she couldn’t remember what happened

I’ve had to give up watching union because of its wokeness now cricket is almost gone.

The rot of politics in these sports started with the bans on South Africa.

The way to make a point about apartheid was to beat them on the field.

(And, meanwhile, nothing was ever said about vicious discriminatory policies in India or Pakistan.)

Officers mess port etiquette.

He let the decanter touch the table. :-0

Prosecution says case not about #MeToo
Remy Varga
REMY VARGA

Prosecutor Shane Drumgold has begun the crown’s closing submission, telling the jury the case against Bruce Lehrmann is not about the #MeToo movement or parliamentary culture.

Mr Drumgold warned jurors not to get distracted by “red herrings” and said the case was not about political parties or movements, workplaces cultures, the experience of women in politics or the appropriateness of book deals.

“This case is about what happened on a couch in a room,” he said.

Mr Drumgold said Brittany Higgins actions in 2021 – such as giving media interviews or securing a book deal – did not change the consistent accounts she gave in the weeks immediately after the alleged rape in 2019.

Yep. Really need Pell levels of beyond reasonable doubt. Over to the jury.

Thanks, fascinating stuff.

Exploiting the physical effects of firing to activate a wet plate battery
and arm the self destruct mode is genius.

He let the decanter touch the table. :-0

Damn your eyes Sir, the decanter should never leave the table.
And there’ll be none of that King Over the Water nonsense either.

what would her reaction be to men who arrived in shorts and no jocks?

As a child, an Alby Mangel’s moment couldn’t really compensate for that chick in the suede bikini.