GRRM quotes Yeats

[Platypus]

In his "Words for our times" post on July 11, GRRM quotes the famous first verse of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. Which seems appropriate, as it almost always does, but especially so in recent months.

Comments disabled of course. So no-one can ask him what exactly he is getting at.

But folks always see such things through their own particular political lenses. I asked a friend what he guessed GRRM meant by his post, and he suggested "GRRM means that Joe Biden lacks all conviction, and Donald Trump is full of passionate intensity". I laughed and said that that sounded about right.

But surely a fair-minded person would see a fair amount of passionate intensity, combined with malice, the other side of the political spectrum as well.

[Butterbumps@Home]

keskiviikko 22. heinäkuuta 2020 19.32.32 UTC+3 Platypus kirjoitti:

> But surely a fair-minded person would see a fair amount of passionate
> intensity, combined with malice, the other side of the political spectrum as
> well.

I certainly don't see any passionate intensity on either "side" of the spectrum of establishment US politics. The reds are all in and dicks out for Trump and will support him through anything now, because it seems like his pardons and commuting of sentences are what's going to get them through. And the blues are just soulless corporate shills who don't believe in anything. Neither, and both, are malicious in the nihilistic depths of their corruption.

Only the democratic socialists seem to have any fire, and that fire is very easy to put out if you pour enough plain oatmeal on top of it.


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[Platypus]

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 8:02:57 AM UTC-4, Butterbumps@Home wrote:
> I certainly don't see any passionate intensity on either "side" of the spectrum of establishment US politics.

My only comment on this is that my remarks were not directed to the elite establishment, which may indeed be composed exclusively of soulless cynical zombies as you seem to suggest. I was referring rather to the fires and rhetoric of public debate. However cynically misguided and misdirected these public conflagrations may be, and however coldly and calculatedly the Powers that Be are fanning the flames, the passions on some level are indeed real and intense.