James Connelly

@jamescon.bsky.social

"By barbarism I mean hostility towards civilization; the effort, conscious or unconscious, to become less civilized than you are" R.G. Collingwood, The New Leviathan, §41.12. Never has this seemed truer or more apposite.

Neil

@nudgecloud.bsky.social

John Betjeman's 1937 poem Slough seems apposite

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears,

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

Benjamin Harnett

@benjaminharnett.com

“Not even wrong” is such an apposite evaluation for our time. Never in my life have I seen so many people so far off the mark.