A little hysteria can go ill-favoured in effete and radical circles – what may be required is a great deal of hysteria, lest one be thought insufficiently impassioned and devoted.
I've always said some people can't drink a cup of coffee without intellectualising it.
If we must insist on making the personal the political then the "ideological subtext" to this article is surely rampant megalomania: my decision to grow a beard is important to the world precisely because it is MY decision and MY beard. I wonder what this guy would be like if he got a sniff of real power. Kim Jong Il perhaps?
I've always said some people can't drink a cup of coffee without intellectualising it.
ReplyDeleteIf we must insist on making the personal the political then the "ideological subtext" to this article is surely rampant megalomania: my decision to grow a beard is important to the world precisely because it is MY decision and MY beard. I wonder what this guy would be like if he got a sniff of real power. Kim Jong Il perhaps?
Oops, this has ended up under the wrong post. It should be under the one immediately above of course.
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