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KulakRevolt  1yr ago (anarchonomicon.substack.com)   3383 thread views

Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence: We used to be a Civilization

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A piece I wrote on one of the most fascinating and incredible thriftstore finds I've ever stumbled upon.

The Edwardians and Victorians were not like us, they believed in a nobility of their political class that's almost impossible to understand or relate to, and that believe, that attribution of nobility is tied up with something even more mysterious: their belief in the fundamental nobility of rhetoric.

Still not sure entirely how I feel about this, or how sure I am of my conclusions but this has had me spellbound in fascination and so I wrote about it.

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I'm not bemoaning anything. Doesn't really matter to me if people actually understand Shakespeare or just read him for the vibes (and this guy is no Shakespeare).

The post I responded to was deliberately overwrought purple prose and was certainly not speaking clearly.

I'm flattered that you initially responded with a brief insult, thought better of it and blocked me, then couldn't stop thinking about me for two days so you unblocked me and came back with this long insult.

Perhaps one day you will learn that brevity is the soul of wit.

People are able to know what words mean by looking at the words around them. This is how people learn new words.

It is doubtful that a reader would learn that "censure" had the additional meaning of "to judge" from reading this.

He probably meant it to mean both.

And modern audiences won't pick up on this because they only know one meaning.

What he is actually saying means nothing in this scene.

Agree to disagree that the words Shakespeare chose have no significance.

I'm flattered that you initially responded with a brief insult, thought better of it and blocked me, then couldn't stop thinking about me for two days so you unblocked me and came back with this long insult.

The OP has already been banned (and apparently deleted all his posts). There is no need to continue this interpersonal bickering.

Fwiw, the post was still up when I responded, and I didn't see that he had been banned.

I'll respond to you with a lot of simple words, then, to meet you at your reading level.

This post reads like someone who is more interested in getting as many condescending digs in as possible, buried in a lot of words, than someone actually interested in the discussion. This post and this one are both you trying to call the other poster stupid as many different ways as you think you can slip by the mods.

My reading level may not be at your lofty level, but I can still see what you're doing.

Keep posting like this, and next time I won't bother letting your posts out of the new user filter. In the meantime, banned for three days for antagonism.

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