I once dared to quote Eugyppius on a family email list, and my younger brother, a rather keen academic Pro-Vaxxer, subjected me to a tirade of anti- Eugyppius propaganda....
I had no idea this man was so loathed by the Church of Covid, but apparently his name is mud, haha!
The Church of Covid mob are fizzing mad that anyone can dare to publish such Heresies!
If E was put on trial by this baying mob of rabid losers and pitchfork-wielders, he would be defrocked and burned at the stake... but ironically enough, all of the Church of Covid mob would complain that wasn't nearly harsh enough ;-)
I do love E for his courage under fire, and all the others willing to put their careers and lives on the line.
I mean, I'm nearly retired now after a long career in Public Health, I own my house, my pension pot is secure, and I can tell them all to go and screw themselves.
How is it that academia can take even the most intrinsically fascinating subject matter and suck all of the fun out of it. It's something I've marveled at since my first year of university. Dullness is the academy's greatest crime against the intellect.
When I was younger and first started law school, coming from a philosophy background I actually thought that law school would involve high-level theoretical discussions and idea exchange. This misconception was firmly crushed within the first few weeks as I watched classmates hiding casebooks, stressing out over subject matter outlines, and developing caste systems to set themselves up for interviews with prestigious law firms. It was like kindergarten with much less intelligent people.
Ah yes, the old 'hide the textbook so only I can study it' trick. When I discovered that was a thing among bio/pre-med students, it had an impact on my view of the moral quality of the population from which doctors are recruited.
My friend, after being roundly rejected from the top English programs, went to Columbia law out of a liberal arts college. She said it was like being back in middle school again, with the cool kids forming cliques in the cafeteria.
People like to hear themselves talk and they enjoy forcing other people to hear themselves talk. It is the unfortunate fuel of conferences … > 1 minute long introductions of speakers should be outlawed. Sometimes I forget who is going to be speaking because my poor heart has accepted there will be nothing after long winded moderators
The idea of academia as some sort of hotbed of lively intellectual thought was really a historical anomaly. Historically it certainly hasn't been so. It's returned admirably to its roots.
(I used to be in academia). I had a misconception about academia and its people. I thought it would be a thriving environment where you are constantly learning and discovering new things. It started that way, but soon the reality set in. I had to do work for other people. Basically, I was working 60-80 hours a week to advance somebody else's career. After a while, it started to feel like a chore: writing papers that nobody cared about, but were written because you got a publication out of it, dealing with useless reviews, writing proposals. Left academia, made some money and I am now doing exactly what I wanted to do in academia, except that I don't have to answer to anybody and don't have to write useless papers and go to boring conferences.
It's really such a shame. I hand out a few lines of Shakespeare to my students and see the light go out of their eyes. Two love it, 28 can't be arsed to even focus on it.
Shakespeare is one of those authors that really requires a good teacher. The dialogue is archaic enough that unless it's brought alive, it just ends up being words without meaning.
I was lucky enough to have a high school English teacher who went out of his way to point out every single dirty joke in the text. He had no problems keeping us focused.
I think it takes a certain appreciation of language to "get" it, or pick something absolutely outrageous that will appeal to students' sense of drama (and fun). Different versions of the beginning of Macbeth have worked well, and asking students to do the "cauldron" scene also did, esp. teenage boys enjoyed "being" the witches, screechy voice and all.
Yes but it really is like magic that first time you read a few lines then realize while none it was comprehensible in isolation, the idea shines through and you know EXACTLY what he was talking about. Maybe pull out one of those easier passages and then give a multiple choices “what was this about?” … maybe you’ll get a third one on board 😭
That's a great way of putting it, the idea shines through - that's what John Donne also does for me, stringing words together and THERE'S this lovely image dropping in my mind. Seems to be a minority experience among my teen students, though. Many do fine as long as the images and feelings are dramatic and "big" enough; I made them learn "Invictus" by heart and they still recite it with a passion two years later. But these are BIG emotions and they are easy to understand and to "get".
Sure. Acting it out helps a lot. Especially if you do something fun with it. We turned Romeo and Juliet into a post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk story, because why not?
Part of the problem though is that pronunciation changes between Elizabethan and modern English completely obscure much of the wordplay.
Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk sounds great, but how did they meet their fate then? It can't have been that the messenger was quarantined because of an outbreak of the plague?
I really liked the Luhrmann version, it always resonated with the students and you could hear them inhale in shock at the moment when Romeo dies and Juliet sits up.
Oh and don't worry about not following the news...nothing much has happened while you've been gone. Well maybe a few things. Okay a lot of things happened. But trust me, you will want to spare yourself the agony of getting caught up on the "news" of the last week. Suffice it to say that the public health establishment is as horrendously incompetent, shortsighted, and thoroughly corrupt as when you left.
Yeah, so about Monkeypox (or $Moneypox$ as I’m sure Pfizer’s internal documents referred to it)… turns out that unless you frequented certain bathhouses in certain parts of certain urban centers, you weren’t very likely to get it. Most people believe that’s why the MSM dropped it so fast.
But I think it had to do with branding. Monkeypox? Seriously? Could you come up with a name more open to Jokes and sneering that Monkeypox? I mean the memes practically write themselves. At least the name “Corona Virus” sounded halfway cool…like it was something you might contract during springbreak in Daytona.
I imagine this week the WEF cabal held an emergency board meeting to fire their publicist and VPs of Marketing and International Branding.
“Miss Jones, you assured us that Monkeypox would strike fear into the hearts of humanity and we would be able to seamlessly transition into “Phase II of our Plan For World Domination”. But as you can plainly see from this meme, we have become a laughingstock!”
“But sir, our focus groups test clearly showed...”
“Enough, Miss Jones! Monkeypox? You couldn’t have at least gone with GatorPox, or PiranhaPox? You had to choose the most hilarious of all zoo animals?! Good grief Flying SquirrelPox is less funny than what you chose!”
Had to laugh quite a bit and would love to see a James-Bond-style movie made about the Piranhapox with an evil supervillain stroking a very fluffy cat while saying "So, Miss Jones...make sure you don't trip and fall off the bridge into ze lovely piranha pond while you're leaving, ahahahaaa, ahahahahaaa!"
Or the supervillain donning a black quilted jacket and walking around the piranhapox development facility asking his head reserach scientist "Ze genetic modifications will ensure ze victims will have piranha tooth-shaped pockmarks on zeir skin, yes? Very good, ahahaha, ahahahahahaaaa!"
NB: I do think that having a virus that targets a rather specific subgroup nobody wants to be found to be discriminating against has killed off whatever pandemic panic vibes might be vibrating through the woke media.
yeah I think monkeypox was just testing the temperature of the water- and whether they could get away with mentioning the smallpox vaccine, the most lethal in history.
Biding there time for the legally binding and global pandemic prevention preparedness and response, they hope will be in May 2024 https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/from-may-2024-unelected-officials?s=w we are already under contract to buy whatever drugs from the WHO that they want us to. Soon they can declare a pandemic on the flimsiest of evidence and lockdown us down enforceable by international law.
I agree, things are super depressing...but I refuse to let myself drag down by them if I can help it, it doesn't serve me well if I despair of things. So I keep things light if I can. I hope my comments didn't drag you down!
Try another epidemic next year, yet more people will wake up to the case. They think they can play the same farce on people x times, they are wrong. Even animals are smarter than that.
...and is trying to "protect" us from new, scary variants that might descend upon us come fall...egged on by the usual irresponsible "experts" and their own sense of self-importance. Wanna guess what they've proposed, Eugyppius? Mask mandates (why that freedom fetish, why oppose wearing those oh-so-useful masks, one Mr. Montgomery moans questioningly), 4th vaccinations, probably even lockdowns. The one silver lining: Scholz doesn't want any more school closures.
I watched a video recently a colleague made during school closures for a first form in which she tried to teach them how to write cursive script (is that the right word) via a youtube video. I felt like crying - so much effort down the drain, so much good will and energy poured into a format that didn' thelp those poor kids. Some still haven't caught up. It's a shame and a disgrace and if somebody gets punished for the school closures I'll die a happy woman.
I would "like" your reply, but it feels silly to have a heart or a smiley face on something so depressing. The least they could have done was put out a few carafes of Illy.
Damn, that’s a really bad conference when you can’t even get a good cup of coffee. Now I’m picturing tepid showers with low water pressure, itchy sheets and the room next to mine is under construction.
Re the conference, sounds like yet another soul killing test brought to you by academia and accredition. We are good at soul killing, pay good money for it. We are funny.
Life is disorienting without regular doses of Eugyppius
I once dared to quote Eugyppius on a family email list, and my younger brother, a rather keen academic Pro-Vaxxer, subjected me to a tirade of anti- Eugyppius propaganda....
I had no idea this man was so loathed by the Church of Covid, but apparently his name is mud, haha!
Then I love E that much more!
The Church of Covid mob are fizzing mad that anyone can dare to publish such Heresies!
If E was put on trial by this baying mob of rabid losers and pitchfork-wielders, he would be defrocked and burned at the stake... but ironically enough, all of the Church of Covid mob would complain that wasn't nearly harsh enough ;-)
I do love E for his courage under fire, and all the others willing to put their careers and lives on the line.
I mean, I'm nearly retired now after a long career in Public Health, I own my house, my pension pot is secure, and I can tell them all to go and screw themselves.
How is it that academia can take even the most intrinsically fascinating subject matter and suck all of the fun out of it. It's something I've marveled at since my first year of university. Dullness is the academy's greatest crime against the intellect.
When I was younger and first started law school, coming from a philosophy background I actually thought that law school would involve high-level theoretical discussions and idea exchange. This misconception was firmly crushed within the first few weeks as I watched classmates hiding casebooks, stressing out over subject matter outlines, and developing caste systems to set themselves up for interviews with prestigious law firms. It was like kindergarten with much less intelligent people.
Ah yes, the old 'hide the textbook so only I can study it' trick. When I discovered that was a thing among bio/pre-med students, it had an impact on my view of the moral quality of the population from which doctors are recruited.
And in the case of lawyers why societal stereotypes remain largely accurate.
My friend, after being roundly rejected from the top English programs, went to Columbia law out of a liberal arts college. She said it was like being back in middle school again, with the cool kids forming cliques in the cafeteria.
Your friend is 100% accurate.
Masters and Johnson even managed to make sex look unappealing.
People like to hear themselves talk and they enjoy forcing other people to hear themselves talk. It is the unfortunate fuel of conferences … > 1 minute long introductions of speakers should be outlawed. Sometimes I forget who is going to be speaking because my poor heart has accepted there will be nothing after long winded moderators
Not limited to academia, sadly.
The idea of academia as some sort of hotbed of lively intellectual thought was really a historical anomaly. Historically it certainly hasn't been so. It's returned admirably to its roots.
(I used to be in academia). I had a misconception about academia and its people. I thought it would be a thriving environment where you are constantly learning and discovering new things. It started that way, but soon the reality set in. I had to do work for other people. Basically, I was working 60-80 hours a week to advance somebody else's career. After a while, it started to feel like a chore: writing papers that nobody cared about, but were written because you got a publication out of it, dealing with useless reviews, writing proposals. Left academia, made some money and I am now doing exactly what I wanted to do in academia, except that I don't have to answer to anybody and don't have to write useless papers and go to boring conferences.
It's really such a shame. I hand out a few lines of Shakespeare to my students and see the light go out of their eyes. Two love it, 28 can't be arsed to even focus on it.
Shakespeare is one of those authors that really requires a good teacher. The dialogue is archaic enough that unless it's brought alive, it just ends up being words without meaning.
I was lucky enough to have a high school English teacher who went out of his way to point out every single dirty joke in the text. He had no problems keeping us focused.
I think it takes a certain appreciation of language to "get" it, or pick something absolutely outrageous that will appeal to students' sense of drama (and fun). Different versions of the beginning of Macbeth have worked well, and asking students to do the "cauldron" scene also did, esp. teenage boys enjoyed "being" the witches, screechy voice and all.
Yes but it really is like magic that first time you read a few lines then realize while none it was comprehensible in isolation, the idea shines through and you know EXACTLY what he was talking about. Maybe pull out one of those easier passages and then give a multiple choices “what was this about?” … maybe you’ll get a third one on board 😭
That's a great way of putting it, the idea shines through - that's what John Donne also does for me, stringing words together and THERE'S this lovely image dropping in my mind. Seems to be a minority experience among my teen students, though. Many do fine as long as the images and feelings are dramatic and "big" enough; I made them learn "Invictus" by heart and they still recite it with a passion two years later. But these are BIG emotions and they are easy to understand and to "get".
Sure. Acting it out helps a lot. Especially if you do something fun with it. We turned Romeo and Juliet into a post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk story, because why not?
Part of the problem though is that pronunciation changes between Elizabethan and modern English completely obscure much of the wordplay.
Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk sounds great, but how did they meet their fate then? It can't have been that the messenger was quarantined because of an outbreak of the plague?
I really liked the Luhrmann version, it always resonated with the students and you could hear them inhale in shock at the moment when Romeo dies and Juliet sits up.
Nothing about the dialogue or plot was changed. It was purely aesthetic: costumes, props, and scenery.
This is what they told us when I started studying the history and theory of literature:
"Forget about enjoying reading books for a long time, if ever again".
Too true.
Enjoy your time off!
Oh and don't worry about not following the news...nothing much has happened while you've been gone. Well maybe a few things. Okay a lot of things happened. But trust me, you will want to spare yourself the agony of getting caught up on the "news" of the last week. Suffice it to say that the public health establishment is as horrendously incompetent, shortsighted, and thoroughly corrupt as when you left.
is monkeypox at least not a thing anymore
Yeah, so about Monkeypox (or $Moneypox$ as I’m sure Pfizer’s internal documents referred to it)… turns out that unless you frequented certain bathhouses in certain parts of certain urban centers, you weren’t very likely to get it. Most people believe that’s why the MSM dropped it so fast.
But I think it had to do with branding. Monkeypox? Seriously? Could you come up with a name more open to Jokes and sneering that Monkeypox? I mean the memes practically write themselves. At least the name “Corona Virus” sounded halfway cool…like it was something you might contract during springbreak in Daytona.
I imagine this week the WEF cabal held an emergency board meeting to fire their publicist and VPs of Marketing and International Branding.
“Miss Jones, you assured us that Monkeypox would strike fear into the hearts of humanity and we would be able to seamlessly transition into “Phase II of our Plan For World Domination”. But as you can plainly see from this meme, we have become a laughingstock!”
“But sir, our focus groups test clearly showed...”
“Enough, Miss Jones! Monkeypox? You couldn’t have at least gone with GatorPox, or PiranhaPox? You had to choose the most hilarious of all zoo animals?! Good grief Flying SquirrelPox is less funny than what you chose!”
Had to laugh quite a bit and would love to see a James-Bond-style movie made about the Piranhapox with an evil supervillain stroking a very fluffy cat while saying "So, Miss Jones...make sure you don't trip and fall off the bridge into ze lovely piranha pond while you're leaving, ahahahaaa, ahahahahaaa!"
Or the supervillain donning a black quilted jacket and walking around the piranhapox development facility asking his head reserach scientist "Ze genetic modifications will ensure ze victims will have piranha tooth-shaped pockmarks on zeir skin, yes? Very good, ahahaha, ahahahahahaaaa!"
NB: I do think that having a virus that targets a rather specific subgroup nobody wants to be found to be discriminating against has killed off whatever pandemic panic vibes might be vibrating through the woke media.
Actually, it would be much better if he were stroking a very fluffy piranha.
yeah I think monkeypox was just testing the temperature of the water- and whether they could get away with mentioning the smallpox vaccine, the most lethal in history.
Biding there time for the legally binding and global pandemic prevention preparedness and response, they hope will be in May 2024 https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/from-may-2024-unelected-officials?s=w we are already under contract to buy whatever drugs from the WHO that they want us to. Soon they can declare a pandemic on the flimsiest of evidence and lockdown us down enforceable by international law.
here's my reasoning why we don't need it https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/we-do-not-need-a-pandemic-prevention?s=w
Now I've quite depressed myself after your light hearted comments.
Jo
I agree, things are super depressing...but I refuse to let myself drag down by them if I can help it, it doesn't serve me well if I despair of things. So I keep things light if I can. I hope my comments didn't drag you down!
Not at all. A sense of humour is essential and important to see the funny, if slightly dark humour side! x
Gone very quiet, somehow.
Eric Feigl-Ding came up with a nutritional plan that eliminated it completely.
Well, it should work, given that this is Feigl-Dings true area of expertise (unlike COVID management).
Try another epidemic next year, yet more people will wake up to the case. They think they can play the same farce on people x times, they are wrong. Even animals are smarter than that.
...and is trying to "protect" us from new, scary variants that might descend upon us come fall...egged on by the usual irresponsible "experts" and their own sense of self-importance. Wanna guess what they've proposed, Eugyppius? Mask mandates (why that freedom fetish, why oppose wearing those oh-so-useful masks, one Mr. Montgomery moans questioningly), 4th vaccinations, probably even lockdowns. The one silver lining: Scholz doesn't want any more school closures.
I watched a video recently a colleague made during school closures for a first form in which she tried to teach them how to write cursive script (is that the right word) via a youtube video. I felt like crying - so much effort down the drain, so much good will and energy poured into a format that didn' thelp those poor kids. Some still haven't caught up. It's a shame and a disgrace and if somebody gets punished for the school closures I'll die a happy woman.
Dear Eugyppius, You are worth the wait.
That's the 'managerial class' doing what they do best, i.e., managing western civilization right into massive decline
OMG I have soooo been there. Most professional conferences absolutely suck.
Your purgatory is our purgatory.
Great to have you back. I hope there was decent coffee at the conference.
there was not. there was not decent anything at this conference.
I would "like" your reply, but it feels silly to have a heart or a smiley face on something so depressing. The least they could have done was put out a few carafes of Illy.
This sounds beyond bad. Sorry to hear that.
it is ok, makes having escaped all the sweeter.
Damn, that’s a really bad conference when you can’t even get a good cup of coffee. Now I’m picturing tepid showers with low water pressure, itchy sheets and the room next to mine is under construction.
Eugyppius posts are always worth waiting for.
Re the conference, sounds like yet another soul killing test brought to you by academia and accredition. We are good at soul killing, pay good money for it. We are funny.
Keine Sorgen! I am sure your future posts will be as sharp as ever!
No pressure! Post again when you feel inspired...
Looking forward to it.
Hey welcome back! The world is still crazy, the herd has been stampeding almost daily … exciting times for sharp commentators!
Intensely boring panel sessions kill audience brain cells. Fact. Running for one’s life is just plain good sense.
What was the God-awful boring panel discussion about, may I ask? (Without triggering a breakdown. 😆)
a specific subset of ancient artefact, that I don’t really care about.