05-15-2014, 06:08 AM
Thanks to Leanne for making an important point.
I have glanced at wiki, and, although it says nothing of the kind, I scented the influence of the American religious Right, dreaming of 'back to the future' and purity rings. But pendulums (pendula?) do swing, and although, e.g., it once seemed that the 'permissive society' could only become more so, and religion fade away, that seems to have slowed or halted here, partly because of demographic changes which were unforeseen, but partly, just the elusive Zeitgeist. SO it may have some mileage; certainly, the intelligentsia, like its aristocratic predecessors, tends to fall into an easy trap of adopting a stance of amused boredom (or bored amusement) as the only respectable way to present itself.
It seems that in Russia, they had something similar, and did think it would enable them to recover past heritage, so those of us with a bent for that sort of thing, might don the cloak, and claim some sort of intellectual underpinning.
0The problem seems more to lie in supposing that an untrammelled, untutored gushing will better represent one's feelings, than adopting a few tools. I might sincerely want a cup of tea; but I should not emulate the character in a film about Mr Holy, who constantly says ''Mam, will yer make the fockin' tay!' It is, at least, not quite as barren a topic as first seemed.
I have glanced at wiki, and, although it says nothing of the kind, I scented the influence of the American religious Right, dreaming of 'back to the future' and purity rings. But pendulums (pendula?) do swing, and although, e.g., it once seemed that the 'permissive society' could only become more so, and religion fade away, that seems to have slowed or halted here, partly because of demographic changes which were unforeseen, but partly, just the elusive Zeitgeist. SO it may have some mileage; certainly, the intelligentsia, like its aristocratic predecessors, tends to fall into an easy trap of adopting a stance of amused boredom (or bored amusement) as the only respectable way to present itself.
It seems that in Russia, they had something similar, and did think it would enable them to recover past heritage, so those of us with a bent for that sort of thing, might don the cloak, and claim some sort of intellectual underpinning.
0The problem seems more to lie in supposing that an untrammelled, untutored gushing will better represent one's feelings, than adopting a few tools. I might sincerely want a cup of tea; but I should not emulate the character in a film about Mr Holy, who constantly says ''Mam, will yer make the fockin' tay!' It is, at least, not quite as barren a topic as first seemed.