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To Say Nothing about Four-Tens
Was watching a bleak #Irish serial in #Gaelic where a shotgun was being loaded to nefarious purpose (Grace Harte).
Suddenly I realized that, raised in #Texas, I know the difference between 12 and 20 gauge shells, just from looking at them on screen.
That's culture for you.
— George Maclaine Lang (@xerxesxerxes) April 6, 2021
Shtisel – A Superb Melodrama
I had my say on things Abrahamic in this poem:: https://alteritas.net/pastis/inventory/genesis-11-25
That read, #Shtisel is a superb melodrama about an extended #Haredi family in Jeruslem. In Hebrew with occasional lashes of #Yiddish, it is deeply comic, yet casuistic and poetic in a Talmudic sense.
I had my say on things Abrahamic in this poem: https://t.co/tYqnlR7XtO
That read, #Shtisel is a superb melodrama about an extended #Haredi family in Jeruslem. In Hebrew with occasional lashes of #Yiddish, it is deeply comic, yet casuistic and poetic in a Talmudic sense
— George Lang (@geogeoplots) March 30, 2021
Just as wisdom has made a crown for one’s head, so, too, humility has made a sole for one’s foot.
— Yitzhak ben Eleazar, Jerusalem Talmud(Shabbat8b)
Math Quiz
Math quiz.
With a pop of almost 1.4 billion China has had a total of 4,833 deaths from covid. The US, with a pop of 325 million has had over 500,000 deaths.
How many times fewer deaths per capita has China suffered than the US?https://t.co/8OvKmQA13p
— George Lang (@geogeoplots) March 11, 2021
“A Furiously Active Intelligentsia”
I suspect that those who see our mental culture as fungible in favor of the very specific matter of overturning power differentials are demonstrating the anti-intellectual substrate of being American.
There’s a reason this is resisted officially in France and would never acquire any purchase in Russia where there is a furiously active intelligentsia, and why it is having an effect in Germany where there is understandably always a sense of national guilt about the Holocaust.
Let’s try this. I dismiss claims that it is trivial to be concerned about a paradigm that threatens to overturn our concepts of intellectual inquiry, artistic endeavor and moral perspective. Apparently there are those who consider those things sideshows, things to get to later. I proudly disinclude myself from their number.
– John McWhorter, Tweeted 24 Feb 21