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[blamebrampton]

I have been ill. And overworked. But mostly ill.

A short time before Mr Brammers gave me his virus, he decided we should switch ISPs. In theory this was a good idea, in actuality, it was weeks of me having no internet. While dying. I tried to read a book. It was Wolf Hall. It fell on my face every time I every time I felt faint. Alas, I felt faint quite a bit. That is one big bloody book. I took to reading Agatha Christie paperbacks instead. Lovely and thin.

I have an enormously long post on Australian politics coming up in the near future. I do not have one on the current fandom brouhaha, though I do think satire is the appropriate response to both. I have a dream in which rationality is commonplace, but in the words of the Ruddbot, that's:

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[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Britpicking isn't it? That old stand by

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Essentially, yep. It's so headbangy because it starts by arguing a position that no one is actually holding, and then ends with, as the other day, someone I know to be perfectly decent and lovely making the EXACT same argument that filmmakers make in favour of whitewashing under the mistaken belief that they are standing up foe the poor oppressed non-Brits. I would point out the inconsistency of demanding respect for non British culture while denying all possibility of respect for British culture being important, but that would involve me pretending we're marginalised, whereas we're really a mouthy lot who has at some point invaded most countries of the world. In the very clever words of Rowan Williams on a similar matter, one should never confuse being annoyed with being oppressed.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I'm marginalised. I'm marginalised by having proper respect for commas in a world that doesn't care.

Hee, but no, not oppressed but certainly annoyed.