There's a John Buchan quote I think about sometimes, the protagonist is in a meeting along with a Cambridge professor and anti-war activist.
"I thought I had never seen anyone quite so fluent and so futile, and yet there was a kind of feeble violence in him like a demented sheep. He was engaged in venting some private academic spite against society, and I thought that in a revolution he would be the class of lad I would personally conduct to the nearest lamp-post."
It's stuck in my head for years, I see men like Williams and I just think of the feeble violence of a demented sheep. It isn't that men of this type are incapable of real violence but there's something that just signals the enormous gap between their desires and their abilities. Their real danger is the sort of moral or social rot they spread.
He's the reason I pray my lads don't want to go to uni. Eldest has decided he doesn't - says he doesn't want to be brainwashed and end up in debt. It's a pity because he'd make a great teacher and we need folk like him (normal, sane humans) in the profession....
Is Williams the product of his upbringing, society or his years in our left wing education system? 🤔
The tragic naivety of cretins like Williams and his band of merry morons is that they really think they've found something worthwhile to believe in because until now they've probably only ever had to worry about their gcse results and whether they would ever outgrow their acne.
So their very self importance, picturing themselves on par with the poisonous Swedish dwarf (about whom I have no doubt he masturbates nightly) is so pathetic that it would be laughable if it wasn't so potentially dangerous .
Some might call them useful idiots or flying monkeys, but in their own minds ( or what is supposed to be a mind) they believe they ate making the world a better place. Or ay least ingratiating themselves with the powers-that-will-be if labour stay in for much longer.
There's a John Buchan quote I think about sometimes, the protagonist is in a meeting along with a Cambridge professor and anti-war activist.
"I thought I had never seen anyone quite so fluent and so futile, and yet there was a kind of feeble violence in him like a demented sheep. He was engaged in venting some private academic spite against society, and I thought that in a revolution he would be the class of lad I would personally conduct to the nearest lamp-post."
It's stuck in my head for years, I see men like Williams and I just think of the feeble violence of a demented sheep. It isn't that men of this type are incapable of real violence but there's something that just signals the enormous gap between their desires and their abilities. Their real danger is the sort of moral or social rot they spread.
YES. That is gold. That gap, in the social media age, is ever so more pronounced, too. Ties to Durkheim's malady of the infinite. (What doesn't?)
He's the reason I pray my lads don't want to go to uni. Eldest has decided he doesn't - says he doesn't want to be brainwashed and end up in debt. It's a pity because he'd make a great teacher and we need folk like him (normal, sane humans) in the profession....
Is Williams the product of his upbringing, society or his years in our left wing education system? 🤔
Good question... his Instagram photos saddened me a little. Felt more pity than anything. The boy is lost.
The tragic naivety of cretins like Williams and his band of merry morons is that they really think they've found something worthwhile to believe in because until now they've probably only ever had to worry about their gcse results and whether they would ever outgrow their acne.
So their very self importance, picturing themselves on par with the poisonous Swedish dwarf (about whom I have no doubt he masturbates nightly) is so pathetic that it would be laughable if it wasn't so potentially dangerous .
Some might call them useful idiots or flying monkeys, but in their own minds ( or what is supposed to be a mind) they believe they ate making the world a better place. Or ay least ingratiating themselves with the powers-that-will-be if labour stay in for much longer.
That masturbation remark left a skid mark I’ll never be able to clean off on my brain.
Sorry about that. True though, innit?
An effing brilliant line, Pastrami!
🙂
You nailed it perfectly.