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Doctor of Philosophy? What disease is that?
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virus: The Denaissance Starts here!
« on: 2005-05-24 18:40:55 » |
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The top 10 new movements not yet invented but sure to rock the world in the
21st Century.
1. Denaissance - The undoing of the Renaissance. People reject all
aspirations to emulate the cultural achievements of antiquity, or for that
matter 16th Century Europe, and take refuge in blinkered Mediaeval
certainty.
2. Neo-Luddism - Combining hostility to technology in the workplace as
embodied in the apocryphal figure of Ned Ludd, but retaining it and
worshipping it in the sphere of private life. So, for example, it is OK to
have a mobile phone, but it is illegal for work to call you on it.
3. Obscurism - The inevitable backlash to our current obsession with
celebrity. Complete anonymity will come to be regarded as the supreme moral
virtue. Obscurist artists and writers will produce great works, but no-one
will know about it.
4. Post-Ageism - Because of demographic changes in society, combined with
constant vilification of young people in the media, old age becomes
incredibly fashionable. Youth is despised and comes to be seen as physically
repulsive. New plastic surgery techniques to artifically wrinkle skin become
very popular.
5. Post-Conservatism - Conservatives realise that so much has gradually
changed and evolved since they started being conservative that to get back
to where they started they will have to become radical revolutionaries.
6. Masculism - Like Feminism, except instead of formulating a coherent
analysis of the power structure in society the proponents just make lists of
things in society they like and dislike the most.
7. Groucho-Marxism - Class struggle with a sense of humour.
8. Post-itism - A theory proposing that all worthwhile human endeavour is
most accurately expressed on little yellow bits of paper with an adhesive
strip on the back.
9. Neo-nlightism - A theory proposing that all worthwhile human endeavour is
most accurately expressed in lurid coloured bright lights on Broadway. A
schismatic movement focuses on Piccadilly Circus.
10. Schmism - A theory proposing that all worthwhile human endeavour is most
accurately expressed by repeating key words and inserting 'schm' as the
first syllable. For example: 'Shakespeare? schmakespeare!' 'Capitalism?
schmapitalism!
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