The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Wednesday, 27 September 2006

Idemeneo and the Poltroons

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Kirsten Harms, the director of the Deutsche Oper, has decided to cancel performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo , lest Muslims be offended at a sc...
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006

Durch die Brust Verbunden

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“Nature has joined men at the heart, but the professors would like them joined at the head.” ..... [“Die Natur hat die Menschen durch die Br...
Monday, 25 September 2006

Nock’s Golden Rule

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Albert J. Nock’s Golden Rule of Sound Citizenship states: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to ex...
Friday, 22 September 2006

Unconventional Silliness

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“Mathematics and logic are collections of norms”, says David Bloor. “The ontological status of logic and mathematics is the same as that of ...
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Fewtril #126

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It is hardly to be hoped that one can speak with knowledge and insight without being accused of ignorance and bigotry.
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006

Fewtril #125

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Nowadays it often happens that, having exhorted someone to live up to some ideal, one is accused of doing him down or of trying to delude hi...
Monday, 18 September 2006

Fewtril #124

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One can do little against organised stupidity but hope that it will inadvertently organise its own demise.
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Fewtril #123

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One can be so successful at stopping a dangerous thing at its outset that thereafter people will say that one had exaggerated its threat.
Friday, 15 September 2006

Nothing New

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The sun rises in the east. The Mohammedans seethe . Such is the way of things.
Thursday, 14 September 2006

Fewtril #122

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In the great scramble to be offended, it is essential that one might find any innocuous thing utterly vile and offensive, lest one be outdon...
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Fewtril #121

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As many of us have come to understand, there are few creatures more easily dupable than a western intellectual desperate to demonstrate his ...
Wednesday, 13 September 2006

Fewtril #120

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One can hardly expect people to feel shame for their sins and shortcomings when they are so readily proud to boast of them.
Tuesday, 12 September 2006

Fewtril #119

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If a scholar changes his outlook in maturity, we may say he has shrugged off his youthful fantasies – or lost his marbles.
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Humanity, Great and Otherwise

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We often take vicarious pride in the greatness of humanity. I say “vicarious” because the greatness that we assume as belonging to our human...
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Fewtril #118

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Everything in our bureaucracy is stripped of jollity in order that it be efficient – and yet that is the last thing one could impute to it! ...
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Wednesday, 6 September 2006

Another Holiday

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I am on holiday again, hence light posting, if any.
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