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#ridicule

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Horace

But he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, —
Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!)
Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down,
The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town.
 
                                        [At ille,
Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo),
Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, “Sunt quibus in Satira,” l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/14901/

WIST Quotations · Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 1, "Sunt quibus in Satira," l. 44ff (2.2.44-46) (30 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)] - Horace | WIST Quotations But he that touches me, (hands off! I cry, -- Avaunt, and at your peril come not nigh!) Shall for his pains be chaunted up and down, The jest and byeword of a chuckling Town. [At ille, Qui me conmorit (melius non tangere, clamo), Fiebit et insignis tota cantabitur urbe.]…
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
 
[On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶134 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

WIST Quotations · Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶134 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST Quotations We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. [On n’est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l’on a que par celles que l’on affecte d’avoir.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition. (Source (French)). Alternate translations: The Qualities a man really hath,…
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djl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A portrait of Trump made entirely from bits of pig entrails was created in Finland. Outside of the Kremlin and gas-lit US Voters, ridicule and contempt appear universal.

There could only be one place to put the pig's anal sphincter 😃

More fine artwork can be found here -

ouridiotpresident.com/art.html

#trump#usa#us
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Thoreau

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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lobster

How to Save #USA,

1. Matrix style ("Guns — lots of guns" ~ #Neo) Yep, good luck with that idea
2. Buy USA. Good luck with that. I guess you could pay in anything except Crypto, Dollars or #IOU's
3. Isolate as a #toxic #Terrorist state. Strangely enough that is what will happen as #Isolationism is now official policy of the 'geniuses' now ready to be charged.
4. Ignore, #ridicule and document atrocities
5. Back-tax those poisoning minds, #environment and ... well everything

What is your #plan?

Anyways I am off to do better things.

- second breakfast, here I come
- meditate on the meaning of life/kindness and compassion
- exercise my body back into a state of 'fit for purpose
- read a library book
- join a queue (did not even know how to spell it)
- do something random (oh yes now that is a plan) 🏴

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Radical Anthropology

Day 12: in this brilliant talk Dasa Bombjakova describes #moadjo, the #BaYaka theatre of #ridicule run by older #women if some man misbehaves!

'this lecture portrays the role of ridicule and other powerful levelling mechanisms in learning about the normative world of this gender-egalitarian BaYaka hunting and gathering society. How do you teach norms to children in this specific cultural context? What this has to do with the Colin Turnbull’s concept of noise? Dasa Bombjakova will address these questions and raise some tips on future research on norms in an egalitarian hunter-gatherer context.'

#13daysofXmas #RAGtoptalks
#egalitarianism #gender #laughter #IndigenousCosmology #levelling

vimeo.com/714542452

VimeoRidicule, Public Speaking and Noise: On the BaYaka normative world by Dasa Bombjakova by Dasa Bombjakova May 24, 2022The aim of this lecture is to portray the role of ridicule and other powerful levelling mechanisms in learning about the normative world in this gender-egalitarian…
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