Sprezzatura

 "England, mate! Yeah, go fuck yourself!" I - Brief Notes On Why You Shouldn't Cancel Me For The Title Of This Blogpost Let me explain the title before you raise your pitchforks and torches. The greatest documentary that I have ever seen, the one that best encapsulates the absolute state of modern Britain, is called 'Angry, White, and Proud.' Find it here. "A lot of people would class [what you say] as racist thought," whines the journalist behind the camera, in the first interaction we see in the doc. "Yes, I'm incredibly racist against Muslims," Colin replies, immediately destroying the argument. "I 'ate Muslims, hate 'em with a fuckin' passion, more than I hate West Ham Football Club - and I 'ate them bastards." This post is about, and of course, its title comes from, the first half of that sentence. "I've never heard anyone say that before, I'm a little bit lost for words!" replies...

This is a uni essay but it's the kind of thing I'd post here anyway, partly because it touches on the same themes but in more detail, and partly because the only way I can bring myself to write essays is if I write them like blogposts. I swear down this is how I sent this in, including citing Sam[]zdat, because I just don't care anymore: Though one could argue globalisation has been a phenomena since as far back as the founding of the Dutch East India company in 1602, the question is whether the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union, Brexit, will fundamentally alter the economic climate of the last forty years, which, as Robert Scott describes, has been “an era of globalization driven by deregulation and the ceding of power over trade and regulation to international institutions like the EU and the World Trade Organization.” (Scott, 2016)  In this essay I will firstly attempt to detail how globalised neoliberalism came about, and then how the United Kingdo...

"He will live a long life, as long as he never knows himself" "Don't blow smoke up my arse, Tiresias, he's fucking ROTTEN!" I Something about the cancel culture debate/debacle rubs me the wrong way. I'm not nearly as passionate about this as certain other members of the blogosphere , but it seems emphatically wrong. How do you square being a huge fan of cancel culture with acknowledging the psychological trauma it causes? It must be a really effective tactic if you're willing to risk breaking people's brains, right? ...oh. So not only is this shit horrible, it doesn't work? In the words of a very unwise man, "What the fuck are we doing here?" I think I know what the gotcha is SUPPOSED to be here. Maza has, purposefully or not, laid out the compassionate classical-liberal-type argument against cancel culture - it ruins people's lives. Lubchansky is saying "no, it doesn't ruin people's lives, becaus...