Put the milk on the sill and wait for it to curdle.
Oh, no, wait ... I don't think they mean that type of culture! (see FundyPost, and now Not PC hopping on the bandwagon).
Our readers don't come here to hear about my latest designer top that I've sewed or the gourmet dish I served up for dinner the night before or the books on various topics that I'm reading about or the play I went to last week. They can go elsewhere for that.
It's all very well to put up a you-tube clip to show that you appreciate culture - but can you sing or dance or act or draw? Bing, bing, bing, bing .. all four down in this corner.
Sheesh.
Go bother some other cardboard cut-out one-dimensional imaginary person that you've dreamt up.
Oh, no, wait ... I don't think they mean that type of culture! (see FundyPost, and now Not PC hopping on the bandwagon).
As Paul at 'The Fundy Post' points out, "These conservative chaps and chapesses, the ones who blog about the clash of civilisations and all that stuff, talk a lot about culture but they never show any evidence that they have any of it." A fair point, methinks.Oh, for goodness sakes! We blog. We choose what we reveal about ourselves. There is a great deal about my every day life that I do not talk about online.
Our readers don't come here to hear about my latest designer top that I've sewed or the gourmet dish I served up for dinner the night before or the books on various topics that I'm reading about or the play I went to last week. They can go elsewhere for that.
It's all very well to put up a you-tube clip to show that you appreciate culture - but can you sing or dance or act or draw? Bing, bing, bing, bing .. all four down in this corner.
Sheesh.
Go bother some other cardboard cut-out one-dimensional imaginary person that you've dreamt up.
When PC talks about culture and civilisation he's talking about the primacy of reason and science, not singin', dancin' and cooking a good omelette.
ReplyDeleteThe Right are just too funny - got the trailer park demographic covered, that's for sure.
Well, the solo mum welfare bludger and terrorism apologist demographic was already covered by the Left, Joe.
ReplyDeleteIs that why PC blogs about beer? To show he has culture? ;)
ReplyDeleteJust throw another heretic ion the pyre and mellow out churchy dudes...;-)
ReplyDeleteI play guitar and my favourite poet is Elizabeth Barrett Browning; there, how's that for culture?
ReplyDeleteWhen NotPC talks about science and reason, he is talking about the byproduct of a culture that has a set of values and norms that provide the framework for science and reason to flourish.
ReplyDeleteRemove that value system, destroy those norms and you risk science and reason.
You may as well drink hemlock once those are gone.
Excuse me for not articulating the obvious in my blog posts.
I am prepared to throw opinions out into the blogosphere on on things that I have no great emotional attachment to. It makes blogging educational and enjoyable for me.
Other things in my life that have a greater personal value (and are things I tend to think about in greater detail) are for sharing with friends, family and colleagues.
Maybe I think differently from those critics that expect a particular content to back up their preconceptions? I wonder if they could entertain that possibility?
Me, I just chat away in my blog about the things that interest me.
ReplyDeleteAnd I try to have better manners than "joe sixpack", who comes into someone elese's blog and compares them with trailer trash.
So I may not be cultured but I sure do know what manners are.
"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning"
ReplyDelete-Hermann Goering
Speaking of culture, has anyone actually read those twin suns of western culture "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged"?
ReplyDeleteYep. Enjoyed them immensely. I don't want to give away the ending in Atlas Shrugged, but who is John Galt?
ReplyDeleteA T-shirt slogan.
ReplyDeleteWho is Keyser Söze? Who is Tyler Durden?
More interesting are the questions: who is Rastignac? Who is Billy Pilgrim? Who is Raskolnikov? Who is Yossarian? Who is Leopold Bloom?
Who is Ivan Ilyich? Who is Dorothea?
Thank you for showing what paul meant George.
ReplyDeleteGoering never said that line. It was a playwright called Hanns Johst.
A little research goes along way doesn't it now, George?
S
A slight error in attribution is not proof of a lack of culture S.
ReplyDeleteWhereas your smarmy response carries more than a hint of snobbery.
Hanns Johst, Nazi Poet Laureate, gee let's scrap over him!
ReplyDeleteAnon.
If you researched further you'd have discovered that specific line was absent from his Schlageter play.
"Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!"
The famous quote is a variation on a play line.
(knowledge attributed to Wikipedia and Google)
On the subject of attribution, too
much is made of it particularly when most 'wits' often lift an idea and recontextualise it to productive effect. (NB Star Wars)
Harold Bloom noted that everyone who followed Shakespear has spent their time trying to sound original but failing...
anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThank you.
I stand corrected, I bow to your knowledge about Nazi Poet Laureates from the Militant League of German Culture.
Just goes to show you can't trust all those quotation books and their misattributions.
:-) thank you, Lucyna.
ReplyDeleteYou saved me having to comment on Zen Tiger's reference to Bloom and his "anxiety of influence" theory.
That was Greg's comment kg. And it was a good comment. It's amazing all of the nuggets of information spinning around the brain cells. It seems the Usual Suspects are busy putting out the usual catch-22 - damned for mentioning anything, damned for saying nothing.
ReplyDeleteOh, the anxiety.
:-) lol!
ReplyDeletef you researched further you'd have discovered that specific line was
ReplyDeleteabsent from his Schlageter play.
"Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my
Browning!"
Actually, yes, I did know that - In fact, I read the quote auf Deutsch.
Fact is, as I was pointing out was more a lack of research and relying
on internal prejudices. I terms of smarmy approaches, I would have thought that lucyna would have been able to point out the origins of the line given her extensive reading of that exceptional book on the 3rd Reich, the pink swastika. Such a culture (and respected no less) bit of work that it is
Fair enough.
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