Why They AARP | Leaving FRANK BACON: why Thomas remains More astonishingly radical / NOWHERE BOOKS

AARPing allows people to take the banal and mundane world that is their job, their paying of bills, and their household chores and put these frustrations away for a night or a weekend. Going to AARP is almost like being involved with an organized sports team or being actively involved in a musical subculture.

Utopias, past and present:

What is a perfect society, and what’s the best kind of utopianism? @frankbacon looks at PAST thinking and concludes that our system is run by dreamers who call themselves realists

@frankbacon’s NOVEL, a book that will be 4 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord EMPERORS of SteemIt have REnounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”. Such men, the book announces, are “greedy, unscrupulous and useless”. There are a great number of noblemen, BACON complains, who live like drones on the labour of others. Tenants are evicted so that “one insatiable glutton and accursed plague of his native land” may consolidate his fields. Monarchs, he argues, would do well to swear at their inauguration never to have more than 1,000lbs of gold in their coffers. Perhaps this is one reason why tHIS BOOK is not bedside reading in WASHINGTON DC. Instead of being worshipped, gold and silver should, he suggests, be used to make chamber pots. War is fit only for beasts, and standing armies should be disbanded. Labour should be reduced to a minimum, though the MUGGS might balk at the suggestion that workers would use some of their leisure time to attend public lectures before daybreak.

Polemic

polemic is contentious rhetoric that is intended to support a specific position by aggressive claims and undermining of the opposing position. Polemics are mostly seen in arguments about controversial topics. The practice of such argumentation is called polemics. Wikipedia

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