When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.
Flannery O’Connor
Cancel Culture has come for Flannery O’Connor via the idiot Jesuits. Go here to read about it. In the world beyond I am sure she is vastly amused. The harm done by Cancel Culture is of course not to giants like O’Connor, especially when they are safely dead, but to the intellectual and moral impoverishment it spreads like a bad rash. Stupidity is its own punishment. Life as a Flannery O’Connor tale.
“Life as a Flannery O’Connor tale.” I think that’s how she saw it.
https://meganlavengood.com/2020/07/27/journal-of-schenkerian-studies-proving-the-point/
We’ve entered a decadent period in which people who nurse at the higher education teat wreck their disciplines by engaging in obnoxious and self-aggrandizing behavior tarted up as professional publication. The simplest way for college trustees to address the issue is to shutter academic units corrupted with this. Of course, the feckless bums do nothing and the sandbox dwelling professors continue to make the world worse.
Fame just finds some people.