130 : 1st.Anniversary of the Death of Poetry and the Triumph of the Thought Police
Without too much further recapitulation; I posted this under Harbinger:67 on 4 August 2018. The existential threat to life and the pursuit of liberty has,in the interim,increased exponentially;we have ineluctably become less ” free ” to express our beliefs and views than when I blogged this a year ago… A couple of weeks or so ago, members of the Manchester University Students Union Executive ordered the painting over of a Rudyard Kipling poem in their building that had been put there as part of some recent very expensive renovations. Their official rationale for this impromptu act of philistinism was that Kipling represented white patriarchy and racism.Or something along those lines. Welcome to the alternate cosmic reality that is:- Virtue signalling,socialjustice warriors,safe-spaces,no-platforming; in other words the full unmitigated gamut of contemporary western identity / gender politics intruding into cultural and artistic expression. Poetry was mainstream,controversial...