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[ish mailian]

In the classical tradition, Sophocles and Thucydides have been
mentioned here, and I would add Aristophanes.
Aristophanes?   Plague jokes? Yeah, we need a comic look at all this.

How bad is this: Watching old man Chomsky try to tie Event 201 to
Neoliberalism? Can we make fun of Chomsky? The disease is everywhere
and it stains everything, even our greatest intellectuals.

"This coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, the information
was there to prevent it. In fact, it was well-known. In October 2019,
just before the outbreak, there was a large-scale simulation in the
United States - possible pandemic of this kind," he said, referring to
an exercise - titled Event 201 - hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center
for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 8:47 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Stan Brakhage, the filmmaker, once banned the newspaper from his house and
> substituted Tacitus, which he read to his family daily. He had reached the
> assassination of Caesar on November 22, 1963."
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