The RB video? I think you've weighed in on the politics threads. It's one thing disagreeing with others' political views, where incidentally I'm usually on the same page as you, but something else again trying to stop them from having any other opinions than of only one slant. That expectation or demand actually matches a number of the criteria for fascism Umberto Eco listed -
https://www.openculture.com/2016/11...ist-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
Fascism has also been defined as absence or rejection of nuance.
"Humanising fascists [sic]’, thus, does not imply transforming them into adorable subjects, but intelligible ones. The risk of this task is realising they are similar or close to us, which might be an indigestible and disturbing fact."
That's from an
anthropological follow-up of a study of Bolsonaro voters, who bear resemblances to Trump followers and the like, which got a negative reaction from the far right, but of more concern, given the scientific presentation, met a backlash from progressive and academic circles, who wanted the existence of this unpalatable basket of deplorables to be denied. But isn't suppression authoritarianism? We're not going to get away from dabbling in political questions while engaging with Morrissey's oeuvre. Isn't it better to be cautiously interested in these new movements forming and morphing, without that reality having to threatening one's own position?
What is your favourite Irish poem, Malarkey? Here's another by Patrick Kavanagh, called,
Memory Of My Father
Every old man I see
Reminds me of my father
When he had fallen in love with death
One time when sheaves were gathered.
That man I saw in Gardner Street
Stumbled on the kerb was one,
He stared at me half-eyed,
I might have been his son.
And I remember the musician
Faltering over his fiddle
In Bayswater, London,
He too set me the riddle.
Every old man I see
In October-coloured weather
Seems to say to me:
"I was once your father."