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Mr Polis stands in the tradition of the Rev. Jonathan Swift specifically his pamphlet entitled A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in I
by keithpeter 13y ago
Mr Polis stands in the tradition of the Rev. Jonathan Swift specifically his pamphlet entitled A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick [1]. Excellent.
[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1080 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1080
- Blahah 13y agoA Modest Proposal was mindblowing to me as a young teenager - it made me realise for the first time that nobody in the world, no matter what position they are in, is beyond criticism.
- keithpeter 13y ago"Last Week I saw a Woman flay’d, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her Person for the worse." The Rev. Jonathan would be on the first flight to Kiev from somewhere like Syria were he alive today. We have much need of these people. The events he witnessed and satirised together with their more modern ramifications have cast a shadow over the history of Ireland and England for centuries, and, indeed, have played a part in the outrageous growth and acceptance of organisations such as GCHQ in the modern era.