When a 28-year-old person identifying as transgender shot up a Tennessee school in March, killing three children and three adults, the usual grim afterlife of tragedy was underlined …
Kurtz (Joseph Conrad) was more correct than he could possibly have known: "The horror! The horror!" Another reason why all young people should be exposed to the classics (as opposed to the tripe currently being fed to them as 'literature' because it fits an ideological schema or, perhaps even worse, it is deemed more "accessible", i.e. offering no challenge to the mind to give it something upon …More
Kurtz (Joseph Conrad) was more correct than he could possibly have known: "The horror! The horror!" Another reason why all young people should be exposed to the classics (as opposed to the tripe currently being fed to them as 'literature' because it fits an ideological schema or, perhaps even worse, it is deemed more "accessible", i.e. offering no challenge to the mind to give it something upon which to grow.)
