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Post by Séamus on May 12, 2022 3:53:44 GMT
"Cambridge has become the latest university to slap a trigger warning on Shakespeare and other literary classics to avoid distressing students....The Cambridge University Centre for teaching and Learning has now told staff all books and plays featuring violence, discrimination and illness should carry a warning.... It's advice said:'Students are best prepared to deal with intellectually challenging material when they are enabled to manage any emotionally/psychological distress that such material may provoke.'" (Sarah O'Grady, social affairs correspondent)
Earlier this week, the second premature,and possibly tragic,death of a son for one Australian musician had made me think about how arts can reinspire,without necessarily stagnating,through the ages- Cave's most famous song,a duet,had been based on Millais' Ophelia,in turn a scene from Hamlet. People were obviously less emotionally and psychologically distressed twenty years ago. No doubt Dorian Gray will now be a victim of the masculine toxicity of his male peers, but it's author never favoured Cambridge anyway.
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Post by cato on May 12, 2022 13:29:08 GMT
"Cambridge has become the latest university to slap a trigger warning on Shakespeare and other literary classics to avoid distressing students....The Cambridge University Centre for teaching and Learning has now told staff all books and plays featuring violence, discrimination and illness should carry a warning.... It's advice said:'Students are best prepared to deal with intellectually challenging material when they are enabled to manage any emotionally/psychological distress that such material may provoke.'" (Sarah O'Grady, social affairs correspondent) Earlier this week the second premature,and possibly tragic,death of a son for one Australian musician had made me think about how arts can reinspire,without necessarily stagnating,through the ages- Cave's most famous song,a duet,had been based on Millais' Ophelia,in turn a scene from Hamlet. People were obviously less emotionally and psychologically distressed twenty years ago. No doubt Dorian Gray will now be a victim of the masculine toxicity of his male peers, but it's author never favoured Cambridge anyway.[/quote I wonder has any culture anywhere taught its young to be weaker than previous generations and "protected" them from the harsher aspects of reality ? Every human mythology has included struggle, resilience violence and courage as part of its depiction of the nature of reality. This rejection of Tradition is both arrogant and short sighted.
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Post by assisi on May 14, 2022 17:04:46 GMT
"Cambridge has become the latest university to slap a trigger warning on Shakespeare and other literary classics to avoid distressing students....The Cambridge University Centre for teaching and Learning has now told staff all books and plays featuring violence, discrimination and illness should carry a warning.... It's advice said:'Students are best prepared to deal with intellectually challenging material when they are enabled to manage any emotionally/psychological distress that such material may provoke.'" (Sarah O'Grady, social affairs correspondent) Earlier this week the second premature,and possibly tragic,death of a son for one Australian musician had made me think about how arts can reinspire,without necessarily stagnating,through the ages- Cave's most famous song,a duet,had been based on Millais' Ophelia,in turn a scene from Hamlet. People were obviously less emotionally and psychologically distressed twenty years ago. No doubt Dorian Gray will now be a victim of the masculine toxicity of his male peers, but it's author never favoured Cambridge anyway.[/quote I wonder has any culture anywhere taught its young to be weaker than previous generations and "protected" them from the harsher aspects of reality ? Every human mythology has included struggle, resilience violence and courage as part of its depiction of the nature of reality. This rejection of Tradition is both arrogant and short sighted. At the root of the Woke ideology is a self loathing that lends itself easily to societal destruction, (i.e. if I can't have my way then I'll drag everyone else down with me).
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Post by Séamus on May 15, 2022 9:08:09 GMT
At the root of the Woke ideology is a self loathing that lends itself easily to societal destruction, (i.e. if I can't have my way then I'll drag everyone else down with me). Addendum: (last Friday's West Australian) "PETA wants to amend age-old nursery rhymes to reflect a kinder attitude towards animals. In an amended version of Baabaa Black Sheep,the sheep explains it's 'not cool' to steal wool and refuses to provide any for the pastor(!),Dame or little boy...In This Little Piggy,the mention of roast beef becomes 'roast beets'...in Three Blind Mice...'they told her thankyou for saving their life'...." The end of Mousetrap's theatre run? To think we're still trying to console hysterical infants with "down will come baby, cradle and all"!?
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