Diary (January 16, 2021)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday January 16, 2021.
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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
The late-medieval author Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) observed "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne" ("The life so short, the craft so long to learn", the first line of the Parlement of Foules).[5] The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." (Avot 2:15)
- Ars longa, vita brevis @ Wikipedia
Fascism
Fascism’s central idea, appearing in a small repertoire of familiar guises, is that there are classes of human beings who deserve diminishment and destruction because they’re for some reason (genetic, cultural, whatever) inherently inferior to “us.” Every fucking fascist, Bannon included, strives to enact that idea, even if he (and it is usually a he—fascism is a masculine ideology, and therefore inherently misogynist) bittercoats it in a discourse of victimization and national self-defense. You know: they are contaminating our nation/race; they are destroying our culture; we must do something about them or perish. At the end of such an ideological trajectory is always genocide, as it was the case in Bosnia.
- Fascism is Not an Idea to Be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight by Aleksandar Hemon
Hair-splitting pettifoggery
I used to share your love of hair-splitting pettifoggery; but now it displeases me.
Control yourself
A man should sooner insult his friend than a stranger.
Pluck me out
If I offend Thee, pluck me out, oh Lord.
Fran Lebowitz
"Metropolitan Life" ← !
Her prevailing mode is High Sardonic Low Brow-Beating.
But this quote is pure love:
"I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response."
(Not sure that quote is from Metropolitan Life. Mostly I remember the High Sardonic Low Brow-Beating material.)
- Notable quotes
- Fran Lebowitz @ Wikipedia
- Comment @ Facebook