Now you may enjoy my writing… I hope so. I hope that you’re not just reading it for the same reason that most people read Andrew Bolt: they want to find out what annoying, illogical thing he’s on about this week. Whatever, I’m pretty sure that nobody is going to say that I’m better than Shakespeare.
Of course, lots of people didn’t enjoy studying Shakespeare at school and there is a chance that somebody might make a meme depicting me in medieval garb, holding a pen and looking pensive in a pose that suggests that I’m somehow on the same plane as the immortal bard. Such a meme would amuse me and I’d be tempted to share it…
However, I’m pretty sure that sharing it might lead to certain others ridiculing me and suggesting that I’m somehow a narcissist just because I reposted what someone else did and I wasn’t personally suggesting that I agreed with the sentiments even though I shared it. Why, I didn’t even realise it was Shakespeare! I actually thought it was 16th Century doctor!
Yeah, it’s a pretty flimsy defence and I would never post such a thing…
All of which brings me to the recent Trump as Jesus thing.
Now, I know that most of the controversy has been about the fact that it appeared that Trump was suggesting that he was Jesus and that this seemed blasphemous to some and Trump’s defence was that he thought it was showing him as a doctor and you’d have to been a complete moron to accept that because anyone with half a brain could tell that it was Jesus…
In Trump’s defence, that last bit about half a brain may be a sound argument… However…
The first point is that it’s a strange argument. “I didn’t think I was Jesus, I thought I was a doctor” is not really evidence that the person was someone we’d trust with the nuclear codes. Not only is he not the Messiah, he’s not even a doctor. Playing doctors and nurses on Epstein Island doesn’t count.
I mean if it wasn’t Trump how would you respond? “Sorry officer, I’m not guilty of indecent exposure because I actually thought I was in my own house when I took off all my clothes and lay down in the middle of the road but now you’ve pointed out my mistake, I’ll just fix it by mounting my unicorn over there and flying back home.” Doesn’t sound like someone who should be wandering the streets without supervision.
But it’s the second point that I think is most disturbing: What the actual fuck is the President of the United States doing when he posts memes of himself doing things he’s never done!!
Just stop and forget the fact that we woke up one day and found Tony Abbott was PM and he’d knighted a duke and try and remember reality as it once was. Wouldn’t you expect that the POTUS would be too busy to be posting fantasies on social media? (Ok, some might say all Presidents have posted fanciful stories on social media but let’s leave that because we’d be here all day!)
No, no, I hear some people saying it’s just to annoy the leftards, just like he takes on the media and puts them in their place by telling them that they’re rude morons. I find it strange that people who claim to love their country and claim to want everyone in it to love it, think that it’s a great idea for their President to insult half the people who live there just because they have different views on a number of things, such as supporting the rule of law and upholding the Constitution.
It’s like the Australian values thing where we want people to support freedom and if they don’t comply with what we say is freedom then we’ll send them back to where they come from.
It’s a strange century! I think I’ll go back to when I was a doctor in Elizabethan times…
Always enjoy uou pithy writing Rossleigh.
Bert
Re. Kids not enjoying studying Shakespeare at school, as far as my amnesiac memory goes, the only play I was exposed to was The Merchant of Venice, only because some words of Shylock still linger in my mind.
We had a maths teacher in high school who’d been nicknamed Polonius… I never knew why until I googled that character’s name… so fitting. He hit me in the face with his text book, arm fully extended, maximum swing, full force… ’67 or’68, nearly knocked me off my feet. He should have been sacked for his maltreatment of a student, but no, no consequences. I don’t think Shakespeare would have approved.
About Presidents and social media; only since the late 90s. No social media prior to that time.
Is that really you in the Shakespearian duds Rossleigh?And is that other figure President Jesus, pretending to be a sane version of the Mad King?
Lock up your cats and dogs,they’re in danger of being devoured by rampant,salivating, Administration officials…those that haven’t yet been fired.Caligula II.
Of course you aren’t Shakespeare. I am. (But only on alternate Tuesdays.)
Shakespeare is an acquired taste because of the “old” language and a reward as time progresses, this “language becomes “the milk of human kindness”, decoded.
Canguro, you revealed yourself as, when it comes down to it, just the same cut as us other other class room pests.
I got swotted also and it gave me something to brag about in the quadrangle during afternoon recess.
A friend of mine held the record tho. He got six of the best (maybe on both hands?) Then back to the office for another dose after the head caught hime boasting to the rest of us.