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The Spectacle Blog
There ought to be some kind of award for this: “Most Timely Citation of Poetry in a Blog Comment,” perhaps? Daniel J. Flynn’s column about Hugh Hefner’s 85th birthday inspired me to musings of my own, which inspired a reader to quote Kipling:
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
Perhaps some of younger readers could ponder why they never encountered Kipling in their college literature anthologies.
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Occam's Tool| 4.11.11 @ 1:17PM
There is not a single Western European country that has a replacement birthrate, the USA is barely replacement (due to large numbers of illegal anchor babies), Japan, Germany, Greece, and Italy are in a demographic death spiral. Only Israel breeds above replacement among the Nations of the West.
Saudi's birthrate is 2.31 children per woman, well above replacement. Saudi has only 3% of its population as elderly; Germany's percentage of Elderly is over 20 percent now, and growing. The implications are bloody well obvious. Thanks, Hugh.
Dave C | 4.11.11 @ 2:11PM
During the period of schooling I was taught at home, I read lots of Kipling and Poe and Doyle..
When I went back to high school, there was only one teacher who used Poe.. The rest used and re-used the same lit. year after year. (Read MacBeth three years in a row. It's a good play and all but switch things up now and again)
SDN| 4.11.11 @ 2:33PM
Because he's considered a raaaaacist. And a colonialist. And exposing young skulls full of mush to too much truth is a Bad Thing.
matthew s harrison| 4.11.11 @ 4:09PM
I challenge you Stacy, to find one Union Teacher in the US who teaches High School to be able to quote Kipling, or any other of the classic poets! It won't happen. However, they could probably tell you who snooky got horizontal with on the last episode of Jersey Shore, or which real wife of Atlanta was having an affair, or who is in the running on Dancing With The Hasbeens". Long and short-the commenting public on Spectator, Thinker, etc, have forgotten more since breakfast about cultural classics since breakfast, than most public school teachers will know in their lives!
Occam's Tool| 4.11.11 @ 6:01PM
I like "Screw Guns" myself. I also love Kipling's science fiction, particularly "With the Night Mail."
J.C.Eaton| 4.11.11 @ 6:34PM
"It's Tommy this, an Tommy that, an chuck 'im out, the brute. But 'tis savior of 'is country when the guns begin to shoot." The same applies to our country today. We have much better soldiers than we deserve.
Occam's Tool| 4.11.11 @ 6:46PM
Keep in mind that he wrote these lines, prophesizing Europe's future infertility due to lack of societal cohesion and ethics, in 1919!
Kelly| 4.12.11 @ 12:37AM
Glenn Beck's book ,"The Overton Window" was inspired by Kipling, right?
Occam's Tool| 4.12.11 @ 1:04AM
Couldn't agree with you more, Mr. Eaton. I thank them every day for protecting my middle aged fat ass.
Bob K.| 4.12.11 @ 1:51AM
Politically incorrect to mention him, Old Chap! I dare say! Harumph! Remember "Take up the White Man's burden" and all that!