I always feel a bit ick when he’s quoted (here particularly) as his personal viewpoints would not align at all with most here.
That said he was an artist and his opinions are those of an artist. They were radically inconsistent, changed to the point of reversing on many topics over relatively short periods of time, and weren’t rationally arrived in the first place. He believed in magic and ritual. I would never trust Yeats’s opinion on what actions to take in a political context.
He’s about how politics makes you feel, beyond that I wouldn’t take any notice of him.
I don’t think it holds up to discard a work of art because the artist was a dick. Especially when enriching said dick is no longer a concern. IMHO, Second Coming is as intense a portrait of our current state as I can imagine, and I have quoted it a few times myself. If we require our artists to be perfect, we will have no art. I have no issue with avoiding enriching artists who are objectionable (JKR, NG spring to mind) but to claim their art is disposable is not justified. IMHO, of course. No one has to appreciate any art if it does not speak to them.
“Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in announcing the proposal in March. “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more.”
I hate these guys so fucking much… FL and TX will/are getting the brunt of this currently, but we will all suffer for it. The stupid burns. Quite literally, in this case.
I was just concerned that Americans might not know his history. That’s probably an unfair concern in such an educated group though.
As I said he certainly captures how we feel facing this, and the poetry is very vague on specific solutions so it is eminently quotable and relevant to our times.
‘tiny’ clip from brand new Southpark (27th season, egads) episode and trump’s endowment: link. warning: tiny phallus is depicted!
addendumdumdum… so as part of the S2701 there’s a bit where Southpark has to agree to promote trump as part of some settlement. And lo’, there’s a pro trump Ad which yet again includes his tiny penis. Impressively disgusting satire starts up at 54secs of:
Damn. Norman, Oklahoma is the center of tornado research in the United States. The University of Oklahoma is there, and their meteorology department is second to none. The National Severe Storms Laboratory is in Norman. The National Weather Center is in Norman. That’s just . . . stupid.
Well, yes, but two things: psychopathy is presented as a rare aberration, an all-or-nothing state, when it clearly exists in a lot of people as a selective condition, but also it’s not just bigotry. It applies to everyone outside the in-group (even if they’re a cis het, Christian, white male), but also, to some degree, even to those inside the in-group who come into conflict (even unintentionally) with the right-wing reality construct.
E.g. Republicans are unconcerned with the deaths of non-white American children, outright gleeful about dead Palestinian children, but very upset about the death of children in their in-group - unless those deaths are the direct result of Republican policy (gun ownership, disaster response), at which point their emotional response lessens (to the point where they must invent conspiracy theories to deny those deaths, in order to deal with the cognitive dissonance).
So, dead on standard for this admin. They’re almost strategically targeting anything that benefits anyone. You’d be hard pressed to argue that anyone with only the goal to destroy the US would be doing any better.
