Library Review Process

There is a book burning in Ontario in 2019 organised by the regional school board. The ashes are used to fertilise an Inclusivity Tree.

2021 and Book Burning Project Partner and Totally Ethnic Native Indigenous Urban Aboriginal Suzy Kies appears to be an imposter:

Readers: What? Not a Totally Ethnic Native Indigenous Urban Aboriginal? Well, stap me vitals.

Blogista: Could've knocked me sideways with a feather.

Readers: I mean, you just have to say "Suzy Kies" and a Maliseet Laporte (who are Innu) Wbanaki Confederacy Turtle Clan Abenaki Montagnais-Naskape provenance immediately springs to mind.

As with so many news stories these days, there are more levels of insanity in all this than I have the means to trowel through single-handed. I am old enough to remember the phrase "political correctness gone mad" as referring to a single and simple aberration. The prolific manifolds of modern lunacy require teams and seasons in the field.

One item sticks out from the rest as a particularly rich find. The Board Spokesperson declares that

these revelations have prompted us to rethink our library review process...

Illustration: a typical Library Review Process pictured today. It may need rethinking.

The Empirical Strikes Back

It seems like only eighteen days ago that this Prune voiced the demands of the US State Department, the UN Security Council, the EU and all the Clown Assemblies of the Clowniverse...

Additionally

the UN Security Council issued a joint press statement earlier today

calling for a new government that is

united  - 100% Taliban

inclusive - of the Pashtun Taliban

and representative - of the Pashtun Taliban

including with the full and

full and meaningful representation of women - zero is plenty of nothing and the meaning is unmistakable

The Cabinet includes senior Ministers with ties to al Qaeda and ISIS. which is exceedingly inclusive because, of course, neither of these organisations exist in Afghanistan and won't be getting a secure base for their further adventures.

In other news, the world ended in 2013 so none of this is happening anyway. Phew.

Update: the State Department is upset at continuing irruptions of Actual into the Maccosphere:

The State Department on Tuesday expressed concerns over the makeup of the new interim Afghan government announced by the Taliban, including the lack of female leaders and the past actions of some of those appointed to top posts.

The bit I like is

the U.S. “will judge the Taliban by its actions, not words"

aaaaand having Judged, do what exactly? Phrases like "oh yeah, you and whose army?" come to mind.

The Theory is Incontestable; the Actual is Due to Arrive Shortly

Classes on Conceptual Art for post-Taliban Afghan women...

In this article Cockburn of the Spectator (or this to avoid the firewall) talks about seeing, at 0:31, the moment the American mission failed in Afghanistan. Yet the Arabella (or it may be, Perdita or Clarissa) in the clip is undoubtedly British, and there is no shortage of this type anywhere in the western world. This is a systemic, a structural, cake and arse party.

It is the cretinous explication of Duchamp's "toilet", delivered with ironclad certainty, which shows why the West is doomed.

Those who cannot see the hard object just beyond the end of their noses that the unenlightened call Reality, are forced to collide with it.

Stalin unleashed a class of Functionaries who, armed only with the Short Course and a pistol, were to transform this Reality into a by-the-book Utopia. Our own New Functionaries (yes, you, Arabella) and the Pooh-Bahs who urge them on are failing just as surely and thoroughly.