tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post3905836485216274680..comments2023-11-02T11:32:38.324+00:00Comments on The Joy of Curmudgeonry: Charlton on the Clever SillyDeogolwulfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02197539477668018797noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-28473650528096312762009-11-05T08:53:24.946+00:002009-11-05T08:53:24.946+00:00"authoritarian avant-garde" should join ..."authoritarian avant-garde" should join the list - would require a long piece to explain - the notion that anyone who continues to compose tonal music "after" Schönberg is a reactionary.<br /><br />let's recall Dickens' "braggart humility" - the kind of thing that leads to auto-genocide of multiculturalism: we are a culture strong enough to erase ourselves and embrace the world without suffering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-83629457829168713662009-10-25T01:14:12.672+01:002009-10-25T01:14:12.672+01:00ironic..ironic..bruno benedinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10028317877713968224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-50264871605074949632009-10-17T19:48:42.606+01:002009-10-17T19:48:42.606+01:00... because, of course, "evolution" &quo...... because, of course, "evolution" "explains" everything.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-86938021413859355022009-10-17T19:46:34.837+01:002009-10-17T19:46:34.837+01:00Speaking of Lewis and the therapeutic culture -- T...Speaking of Lewis and the therapeutic culture -- <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/pro/lewiscs/humanitarian.html" rel="nofollow">The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment</a>Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-40954243010545133392009-10-13T16:24:21.564+01:002009-10-13T16:24:21.564+01:00Thanks for the great links. This is a man who woul...Thanks for the great links. This is a man who would test the maxim that one honest man spreads panic among a multitude of hyppocrites.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-55609520366846618512009-10-12T11:00:55.193+01:002009-10-12T11:00:55.193+01:00'Clever-silly', 'soppy-stern'. The...'Clever-silly', 'soppy-stern'. The list is endless: <br />'Shallow-profound'; <br />'Intolerantly tolerant' - as bad as 'Tolerantly intolerant' is good; <br />'Enlightened -dogmatic', etc., etc..Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-90388393324843338082009-10-11T13:19:39.848+01:002009-10-11T13:19:39.848+01:00Well done:
to over-use general intelligence in pr...Well done:<br /><br />to over-use general intelligence in problem-solving, and to over-ride those instinctive and spontaneous forms of evolved behaviour which could be termed common sense<br /><br />Yes.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-64122487155445402592009-10-10T18:59:47.959+01:002009-10-10T18:59:47.959+01:00I suppose that soppy-stern meant strict and sancti...I suppose that soppy-stern meant strict and sanctimonious with it, a combination designed to make children feel always-guilty - like the stereotypical public school headmaster about to cane a pupil with the phrase 'this will hurt me more than it hurts you'. <br /><br />If so, I think the soppy-stern species is long since extinct.<br /><br />Soppiness there is in plenty, but never stern-ness. Sternness at least implies a scale of fixed punishments. <br /><br />Instead, we now have a therapeutic culture, as forseen by CS Lewis in That Hideous Strength (1945) with the organization called the NICE <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength<br /><br />an acronym which has since - with perfect justice - actually been adopted by a branch of the NHS bureacracy <br /><br />http://www.nice.org.uk/<br /><br />designed to ration treatments on the basis of cargo cult science 'for our own good'.<br /><br />http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/cargocult.htmlBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-34858891920754720772009-10-10T15:08:54.293+01:002009-10-10T15:08:54.293+01:00There's an opportunity here: could BGC be pers...There's an opportunity here: could BGC be persuaded to write about that Larkin category, the soppy-stern. Or could you, oh wise one?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13305228.post-78447759146645678352009-10-10T00:06:23.242+01:002009-10-10T00:06:23.242+01:00He doesn't mention the thrill of the chase whe...He doesn't mention the thrill of the chase when the fancy takes you to destroy the drivel of a silly-clever, publicly, forcefully and conclusively. I've enjoyed it ever since freshman days.deariemenoreply@blogger.com