For excrements and gentle cacchinations, I googled this fella.
He's the oddest of ducks - a self-described pagan who thinks Dubya has some sort of enlightenment pathway for the world and is somehow the key to Rumi's poetry. Or something like that.
Strange, I'll definitely grant you, drpuma. But this guy Dan Lorey's miserable attempt at trying to intellectualize Bush's travesty is, to me, emblematic of how staid and out of touch BushCo's Cincinnati "base" remains.
It's no surprise that Lorey invokes Plato since X students are weened on the dialogues. But I feel sorry for you, Wizard, and all you other like-minded, culturally-savvy and creative folks in that Tri-State area when we recall that Plato clearly denies Artists admission to The Republic because they rely upon the corruptible (think of the little kiddies, won't you?!) and the corrupting faculty of the imagination. (Read: BushCo doesn't want you to use yours.)
But Lorey's invocation of Atticus (assuming he means the Greek philosopher, as opposed to the Greek rhetorician or the Roman editor and philospher) just reinforces the kind of fascist mentality that is upheld by this Bush Administration. For Atticus' charge that Aristotle was an atheist stems from Atticus' notion that any deviation from the literal text of Plato was heretical. (Read: any deviation from BushCo's agenda is unpatriotic.)
Is it any surprise that this dolt Lorey was educated within the ISA of the Church? Is it any surprise that for his own agenda he misrepresents scholarship (and I use that term loosely in relation to his article)? Is it any surprise that The Enquirer publishes and promotes such intellectually non-discriminating drivel?
And, no, I do not give credence to Lorey's assertion that "Shakespeare would have loved [Bush]." Such a pronouncement only further reveals Dan Lorey's myopically inadequate academic training, for if one were to read--and, yes, read closely--Shakespeare's history plays, one will find readily that despots, tyrants, apostates, and villains do not fair well.
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York... I am determined to prove a villain." -Richard III 1.1
For excrements and gentle cacchinations, I googled this fella.
ReplyDeleteHe's the oddest of ducks - a self-described pagan who thinks Dubya has some sort of enlightenment pathway for the world and is somehow the key to Rumi's poetry. Or something like that.
I give.
WF
You gotta give the Enquirer credit for printing the ravings of any babbling loon off the street. Cincinnati really is a strange place.
ReplyDelete"Cincinnati really is a strange place."
ReplyDeleteStrange, I'll definitely grant you, drpuma. But this guy Dan Lorey's miserable attempt at trying to intellectualize Bush's travesty is, to me, emblematic of how staid and out of touch BushCo's Cincinnati "base" remains.
It's no surprise that Lorey invokes Plato since X students are weened on the dialogues. But I feel sorry for you, Wizard, and all you other like-minded, culturally-savvy and creative folks in that Tri-State area when we recall that Plato clearly denies Artists admission to The Republic because they rely upon the corruptible (think of the little kiddies, won't you?!) and the corrupting faculty of the imagination. (Read: BushCo doesn't want you to use yours.)
But Lorey's invocation of Atticus (assuming he means the Greek philosopher, as opposed to the Greek rhetorician or the Roman editor and philospher) just reinforces the kind of fascist mentality that is upheld by this Bush Administration. For Atticus' charge that Aristotle was an atheist stems from Atticus' notion that any deviation from the literal text of Plato was heretical. (Read: any deviation from BushCo's agenda is unpatriotic.)
Is it any surprise that this dolt Lorey was educated within the ISA of the Church? Is it any surprise that for his own agenda he misrepresents scholarship (and I use that term loosely in relation to his article)? Is it any surprise that The Enquirer publishes and promotes such intellectually non-discriminating drivel?
And, no, I do not give credence to Lorey's assertion that "Shakespeare would have loved [Bush]." Such a pronouncement only further reveals Dan Lorey's myopically inadequate academic training, for if one were to read--and, yes, read closely--Shakespeare's history plays, one will find readily that despots, tyrants, apostates, and villains do not fair well.
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York...
I am determined to prove a villain."
-Richard III 1.1
Cincinnati, you can keep Dan Lorey.
Back to editing John Keats and roaring...
Rintrah