Outstanding. Especially liked the Tweet from Janice Turner. Had previously read Styles' piece on Presentism, but it is good to see it again. Very on point across the whole of Western Civilization.
Hey there, RBM. This was the first I'd seen of M Styles' essay. Glad she pointed me in this direction. And say Thank You to LoobyLou for posting it. A few meanderings:
>> "It is why it is the past."
I'm shocked! I say *shocked*! You don't day!
>> "It can be a tool to ring the changes and to explain old mores. ... It can be used to give a window into a vanished era and can help give some idea of the messy complexity which exists in every society in human history."
I was gonna make this comment, but You beat me to it, Ma'am.
>> "One could make the point that many of the children in the US who confidently signed temperance pledges at school in the 1910’s and 1920’s were the hard drinkers in the 1920’s and 1930’s."
Ha! No doubt.
>> "Even if an author is writing about the past, they are confined by their own time."
Another case where I'm "shocked!"
>> "IT DENIES UNIVERSALITY AND SEEKS TO ASSERT THAT THERE WAS ONLY EVER ONE TRUE SET OF MORALS, THE ONES WHICH **THE CENSORS DEEM APPROPRIATE.**"
(Emphasis added.)
>> "Sensitivity readers are not editors, nor are they authors, instead they are outrage merchants, seeking to conflate pinpricks of possible harm into a whirlwind of outrage."
Just another in a long line of outrage grifters, IMO.
The entire problem is that, so far, there's not much money in expressing outrage at all the outrage grifters. Mebbe someday soon?
TY again to You, Michelle, as well as LoobyLou. TYTY.
Every time I look at that Janice Turner Tweet picture I start howling. Out loud so my wife thinks I've lost my mind.
Bottom line, I am amazed and appalled at the cowardice of publishers, companies, museums, schools, trustees, etc., who crater in the face of a small group of "activists". I think the tide - which waits for no man, of course - is turning. Let us hope that turn continues.
Outstanding. Especially liked the Tweet from Janice Turner. Had previously read Styles' piece on Presentism, but it is good to see it again. Very on point across the whole of Western Civilization.
Hey there, RBM. This was the first I'd seen of M Styles' essay. Glad she pointed me in this direction. And say Thank You to LoobyLou for posting it. A few meanderings:
>> "It is why it is the past."
I'm shocked! I say *shocked*! You don't day!
>> "It can be a tool to ring the changes and to explain old mores. ... It can be used to give a window into a vanished era and can help give some idea of the messy complexity which exists in every society in human history."
I was gonna make this comment, but You beat me to it, Ma'am.
>> "One could make the point that many of the children in the US who confidently signed temperance pledges at school in the 1910’s and 1920’s were the hard drinkers in the 1920’s and 1930’s."
Ha! No doubt.
>> "Even if an author is writing about the past, they are confined by their own time."
Another case where I'm "shocked!"
>> "IT DENIES UNIVERSALITY AND SEEKS TO ASSERT THAT THERE WAS ONLY EVER ONE TRUE SET OF MORALS, THE ONES WHICH **THE CENSORS DEEM APPROPRIATE.**"
(Emphasis added.)
>> "Sensitivity readers are not editors, nor are they authors, instead they are outrage merchants, seeking to conflate pinpricks of possible harm into a whirlwind of outrage."
Just another in a long line of outrage grifters, IMO.
The entire problem is that, so far, there's not much money in expressing outrage at all the outrage grifters. Mebbe someday soon?
TY again to You, Michelle, as well as LoobyLou. TYTY.
Every time I look at that Janice Turner Tweet picture I start howling. Out loud so my wife thinks I've lost my mind.
Bottom line, I am amazed and appalled at the cowardice of publishers, companies, museums, schools, trustees, etc., who crater in the face of a small group of "activists". I think the tide - which waits for no man, of course - is turning. Let us hope that turn continues.
I'm almost too scared to dare believe the tide is starting to turn, but hope is eternal.