Tag: mortality

“We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots,” how Shakespeare captures both the circle of life and the futility of existence in a single sentence

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The entire aside is unnecessary purely in terms of the plot, but Hamlet remains about far more than that.   Perhaps, it is best seen as a vessel for ideas, where they come from, how they evolve, and where they go, and the beings that carry them. The eminent literary critic and scholar Harold Bloom once… Continue reading “We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots,” how Shakespeare captures both the circle of life and the futility of existence in a single sentence

No, pollution isn’t racist and it’s hard to believe one even needs to say it

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Progressives have convinced themselves that the specter of racism and white supremacy is critical to achieving their longstanding goal of increased government power, and therefore they need to find racism everywhere, even in the air itself. Sometimes, it never ceases to amaze how rapid and coordinated the progressive push to proclaim everything is racist, or… Continue reading No, pollution isn’t racist and it’s hard to believe one even needs to say it