Gillmoren tyttöjen isä ja isoisä oli hankkinut divarista H.L.Menckenin päiväkirjoja. Mitäs ne nyt ovat? Kermaperseet näyttivät olevan aivan pähkinöissään niistä. Eiku Wikipediaan.
ellauri097.html on line 63: Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) oli jenkki lehtineekeri vaikka matu sakemanni kuten Donald Trump. Kova sakubändäri. Kirjoitti yritelmiä, etenkin satiirisia. Satyriasisko sitä vaivasi. Saxaa puhui pienenä mutta näytti kieltä jenkeille. Amerikansk kulturprofil, tyypillinen sikäli että luuli enemmän kuin tiesi. Sikäli epätyypillinen ettei uskonut enempää kuin luuli. Kommentoi laajasti paikallista skeneä. Pilkkasi Daytonin apinajuttua (sen perusteella teki laulun Antti Syrjäniemi ja Dumari coverin, joka on tullut mainituxi paasauxissa aiemmin.) Oli ateisti ja vastusti Amerikan menoa molempiin maailmansotiin. Ei voinut siis olla läpeensä paha kaiketi. Muttei hyväkään sillä piti mursuwiixisestä maanmiehestään Nietschestä.
ellauri097.html on line 65: As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was an outspoken opponent of organized religion, theism, populism, and representative democracy, the last of which he viewed as a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress though he couldn´t find his arse with both hands. He was critical of osteopathy and chiropractic. He was also an open critic of economics. In a word: a royal pain in the ass.
ellauri097.html on line 67: Olipa erikoinen sekametelisoppa mielipiteitä. Helpful Henry saattoi olla sukua Punahousun kaverille suomalaiselle Nelisormi Pete Menckenille, joka sivistyi vain hermostuneen Dick Hillin hullunkurisista kirjannimistä. Klikkiozikot taisi olla tänkin autodidaktin pääasiallinen tietolähde.
ellauri097.html on line 71: In a book review of A Life H. L. Mencken (written by Terry Teachout), journalist Christopher Hitchens described Mencken as a German nationalist, "an antihumanist as much as an atheist," who was "prone to the hyperbole and sensationalism he distrusted in others."
ellauri097.html on line 79: Baltimoren asema vientisatamana toipui vapaussodan jälkeen ja sen kautta vietiin viljaa etenkin Etelä-Amerikkaan. Ensimmäinen rautatie tuli kaupunkiin vuonna 1828. Vuonna 1851 kaupunki erotettiin Baltimoren piirikunnasta itsenäiseksi kaupungiksi. Yhdysvaltain sisällissodan aikana 1860-luvulla Maryland oli osa Pohjoisvaltioita, mutta monet paikalliset kannattivat Etelävaltioita. Yhtä sekopäitä kuin Menckenkin. Kaupungilla on ollut myös ongelmia poliisin ja etenkin kaupungin mustan väestönosan jännitteiden johdosta. Esimerkiksi vuonna 2015 kaupungissa mellakoitiin mustan miehen kuoltua valkoisen poliisin pidättämänä kuljetuksen aikana. Samaan aikaan esimerkiksi murhien määrä on ollut historiallisen korkealla. Neljäsosa porukoista elää köyhyysrajan alapuolella. Sinnittelee vähäosaisina kuin Gilmoren tytöt. Kaxi kolmesta asukista on mustanpuhuvia.
ellauri097.html on line 85: Mutta takas Menckeniin. 9-vuotiaana se luki Mark Twainin Huckleberry Finn, mikä oli "the most stupendous event in my life." No taisi olla tylsä elämä. Kylse varmaan luki Twainilta niitä ateistijuttujakin. For Mencken, Huck Finn epitomizes the hilarious dark side of America, where democracy, as defined by Mencken, is "the worship of jackals by jackasses." Siinä se on oikeassa kyllä mutta demokratia on silti paras kexintö. Ilman sitä samat kusipäät ja niiden sakaalit hallizis ilman aaseja. Demokratiassa sentään vaihdetaan aasit ja sakaalit määräaikoina.
ellauri097.html on line 91: In early 1898 he took a writing class at the Cosmopolitan University. This was to be the entirety of Mencken´s formal education in journalism, or in any other subject.
ellauri097.html on line 95: Mencken admired the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (he was the first writer to provide a scholarly analysis in English of Nietzsche´s views and writings) and Joseph Conrad. His humor and satire owed much to Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain. He did much to defend Dreiser despite freely admitting his faults, including stating forthrightly that Dreiser often wrote badly and was a gullible man. Mencken also expressed his appreciation for William Graham Sumner in a 1941 collection of Sumner´s essays and regretted never having known Sumner personally. In contrast, Mencken was scathing in his criticism of the German philosopher Hans Vaihinger, whom he described as "an extremely dull author" and whose famous book Philosophy of 'Als ob' he dismissed as an unimportant "foot-note to all existing systems."
ellauri097.html on line 97: Mencken recommended for publication philosopher and author Ayn Rand´s first novel, We the Living and called it "a really excellent piece of work." Shortly afterward, Rand addressed him in correspondence as "the greatest representative of a philosophy" to which she wanted to dedicate her life, "individualism" and later listed him as her favorite columnist. No voi vietävä!
ellauri097.html on line 99: Mencken is fictionalized in the play Inherit the Wind (a fictionalized version of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925) as the cynical sarcastic atheist E. K. Hornbeck (right), seen here as played by Gene Kelly in the Hollywood film version.
ellauri097.html on line 101: Mencken was a keen cheerleader of scientific progress but was skeptical of economic theories and strongly opposed to osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. He also debunked the idea of objective news reporting since "truth is a commodity that the masses of undifferentiated men cannot be induced to buy" and added a humorous description of how "Homo Boobus," like "higher mammalia," is moved by "whatever gratifies his prevailing yearnings."
ellauri097.html on line 103: Such turns of phrase evoked the erudite cynicism and rapier sharpness of language displayed by Ambrose Bierce in his darkly-satiric The Devil's Dictionary. A noted curmudgeon, democratic in subjects attacked, Mencken savaged politics, hypocrisy, and social convention. A master of English, he was given to bombast and once disdained the lowly hot dog bun's descent into "the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster of Paris, flecks of bath sponge and atmospheric air all compact."
ellauri097.html on line 107: Like Nietzsche, he also lambasted religious belief and the very concept of Cod, as Mencken was an unflinching atheist, particularly Christian fundamentalism, Christian Science and creationism, and against the "Booboisie," his word for the ignorant middle classes. In the summer of 1925, he attended the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, and wrote scathing columns for the Baltimore Sun (widely syndicated) and American Mercury mocking the anti-evolution Fundamentalists (especially William Jennings Bryan). The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized version of the trial, and as noted above the cynical reporter E.K. Hornbeck is based on Mencken. In 1926, he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury, which was banned in Boston by the Comstock laws. Mencken heaped scorn not only on the public officials he disliked but also on the state of American elective politics itself.
ellauri097.html on line 109: In his 1918 introduction to Nietzsche´s The Anti-Christ Mencken wrote "The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world."
ellauri097.html on line 113: In the summer of 1926, Mencken followed with great interest the Los Angeles grand jury inquiry into the famous Canadian-American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. She was accused of faking her reported kidnapping and the case attracted national attention. There was every expectation that Mencken would continue his previous pattern of anti-fundamentalist articles, this time with a searing critique of McPherson. Unexpectedly, he came to her defense by identifying various local religious and civic groups that were using the case as an opportunity to pursue their respective ideological agendas against the embattled Pentecostal minister. He spent several weeks in Hollywood, California, and wrote many scathing and satirical columns on the movie industry and Southern California culture. After all charges had been dropped against McPherson, Mencken revisited the case in 1930 with a sarcastic and observant article. He wrote that since many of that town´s residents had acquired their ideas "of the true, the good and the beautiful" from the movies and newspapers, "Los Angeles will remember the testimony against her long after it forgets the testimony that cleared her."
ellauri097.html on line 115: Mä lyön vaikka vetoa et tää oli sen fixun vaimon ansiota. Mencken oli vaikeasti luokiteltava sekobolzi. Sillä oli erivärisiä hattuja päässä pinossa kuin Koppiaismäellä. Herbert Spenceriäkin se kannusti, pitkä miinus siitä.
ellauri097.html on line 117: Mencken, says Charles A. Fecher, was, "deeply conservative, resentful of change, looking back upon the 'happy days' of a bygone time, wanted no part of the world that the New Deal promised to bring in." In 1931, the Arkansas legislature passed a motion to pray for Mencken´s soul after he had called the state the "apex of moronia."
ellauri097.html on line 119: "Supermen" in Mencken´s view, were those wrongly oppressed and disdained by their own communities, but nevertheless distinguished by their will and personal achievement, not by race or birth. Selvää Nietsche-höpötystä. Tietysti se ize oli teris ja mursuwiixi toinen. Supermiesajattelu ei ole koskaan oikein puhutellut mua. En kyllä kexi mixi.
ellauri097.html on line 126: Mencken defended the evolutionary views of Charles Darwin, but spoke unfavorably of many prominent physicists and had little regard for pure mathematics. Regarding theoretical physics, he said to longtime editor Charles Angoff, "Imagine measuring infinity! That´s a laugh." Ei se osannut kuin neljä laskutapaa, nekin sinnepäin.
ellauri097.html on line 134: the American journalist Mencken was scathing in his criticism of the book, which he dismissed as an unimportant "foot-note to all existing systems". Vaihinger was also criticised by the Logical positivists who made "curt and disparaging references" to his work.
ellauri097.html on line 136: In 1989, per his instructions, Alfred A. Knopf published Mencken's "secret diary" as The Diary of H. L. Mencken. According to an Associated Press story, Mencken's views shocked even the sympathetic scholar who edited it.
ellauri097.html on line 147: Mencken countered the arguments for Anglo-Saxon superiority prevalent in his time in a 1923 essay entitled "The Anglo-Saxon," which argued that if there was such a thing as a pure "Anglo-Saxon" race, it was defined by its inferiority and cowardice. "The normal American of the 'pure-blooded' majority goes to rest every night with an uneasy feeling that there is a burglar under the bed and he gets up every morning with a sickening fear that his underwear has been stolen."
ellauri097.html on line 149: Mencken repeatedly identified mathematics with metaphysics and theology. According to Mencken, mathematics is necessarily infected with metaphysics because of the tendency of many mathematical people to engage in metaphysical speculation. In a review of Alfred North Whitehead's The Aims of Education, Mencken remarked that, while he agreed with Whitehead's thesis and admired his writing style, "now and then he falls into mathematical jargon and pollutes his discourse with equations," and "[t]here are moments when he seems to be following some of his mathematical colleagues into the gaudy metaphysics which now entertains them."[50] For Mencken, theology is characterized by the fact that it uses correct reasoning from false premises. Mencken also uses the term "theology" more generally, to refer to the use of logic in science or any other field of knowledge. In a review for both Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World and Joseph Needham's Man a Machine, Mencken ridiculed the use of reasoning to establish any fact in science, because theologians happen to be masters of "logic" and yet are mental defectives:
ellauri097.html on line 153: Instead of mathematical "speculation" (such as quantum theory), Mencken believed physicists should just directly look at individual facts in the laboratory like chemists:
ellauri097.html on line 159: In the same article which he later re-printed in the Mencken Chrestomathy, Mencken primarily contrasts what real scientists do, which is to simply directly look at the existence of "shapes and forces" confronting them instead of (such as in statistics) attempting to speculate and use mathematical models. Physicists and especially astronomers are consequently not real scientists, because when looking at shapes or forces, they do not simply "patiently wait for further light," but resort to mathematical theory. There is no need for statistics in scientific physics, since one should simply look at the facts while statistics attempts to construct mathematical models. On the other hand, the really competent physicists do not bother with the "theology" or reasoning of mathematical theories (such as in quantum mechanics):
ellauri097.html on line 163: Mencken ridiculed Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, believing that "in the long run his curved space may be classed with the psychosomatic bumps of [Franz Josef] Gall and [Johann] Spurzheim." In his private letters, he said:
ellauri097.html on line 167: His later work consisted of humorous, anecdotal, and nostalgic essays that were first published in The New Yorker and then collected in the books Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and Heathen Days. Mencken was preoccupied with his legacy and kept his papers, letters, newspaper clippings, columns, and even grade school report cards. After his death, those materials were made available to scholars in stages in 1971, 1981, and 1991 and include hundreds of thousands of letters sent and received. The only omissions were strictly personal letters received from women.
ellauri097.html on line 252: Kukas olikaan se toinen sotaisa kynäilijäkaveri josta tuli ambulanssikuski kun ei muuhun kelvannut? Niit näytti olleen 2 näissa paasauxissa: toinen Gandhi buurisodassa, toinen Jerome K Jerome joka oli yhtä sotahullu kuin Pete Mencken. Pete kyllä jätti ambulanssit rauhaan, pysytteli turvallisesti jenkeissä ja hurrasi sieltä käsin sakemanneille.
ellauri107.html on line 420: The social critic and satirist Pete Mencken, ardent supporter of Sinclair Lewis, called himself “an old professor of Babbitry” and said that Babbitt was a stunning work of literary realism about American society.
ellauri107.html on line 422: George F. Babbitt was an archetype of the American city dwellers who touted the virtues of Republicanism, Presbyterianism, and absolute conformity because "it is not what he feels and aspires that moves him primarily; it is what the folks about him will think of him. His politics is communal politics, mob politics, herd politics; his religion is a public rite wholly without subjective significance." Mencken said that Babbitt was the literary embodiment of everything wrong with American society.
ellauri107.html on line 424: In the cultural climate of the early 20th century, like-minded critics and Mencken's followers were known as "Babbitt-baiters".
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Tää kymysys on aiheuttanut paljon tukkanuottasia Quorassa. Alisa Zinovjevna Rozenbaum, James Bondin From Russia with Love leffan naiskonnan "Number 2" doppelgänger ja selvä esikuva, ryssämatu jutkero kuten Saul Belov mutta jehovansa kuopannut, on vanha tuttu aiemmista albumeista. Albumissa 98 selvisi että Ayn Rand on INTJ. Ylläri. Heinlein ja Mencken peukuttivat Aynia. Iso ylläri. Mielikirjailijani ei ole Hilja Haahti vaan Ayn Rand, sanoi Maailman Paskin Nalle. Mojo ylläri. Täytyykin tähän väliin todeta että historianjälkeisen ajan James Bond, se Craig jotakin, on paskahuusin Valituista Paloista päätellen just niin tyhmä amis gorilla kuin sen lähellä toisiaan olevista silmistä voisi päätellä. Peruskoulupudokas ja täysi ääliö.
ellauri258.html on line 126: Sivumennen sanoen, "dignity" on oikeistolainen ällösana, jota on suomittu jo useassa albumissa, erit. Tsihirunkkuṟallin yhteydessä. Oireellisesti, sitä käyttävät mm. paavi Leo työläisistä, Paavi Leo (sama mies), tarkastaja Gently, Unabomber, Marvin, Derek Parfit, Pete Mencken, käsineiti Peg Atwood, Iisakki Bashevis (Mencken sanoo ettei juutalaisilla ole sitä, Bashevis begs to differ), Pascal, Gud (som taler ud), Olli Saxi, Ransu Silava, mustarastaat, De Löllö, joku jumalinen Dr. Dodd, Mark Twain, joku taidekriitikko (puuttuu Goyan Mantoilta parvekkeella, toisin kuin Maneetin, joilla on sylikoirokin), Ernesto "Che" Hemingway, Alex Stubb Maidan-demonstraatioista, Kv filosofien päivän ohjelma 2021, Tytti Yli-Viikarin kainalossa ollut Hawthornen kirja Scarlet Letter, vihan banaanit eli kunniamurhaajat, Lionel Drivel, Alfred Apple Lolitasta, King David kuuma neitonen hot water bottlena. Mikä on tässä yhteistä? Kermaperseily rupusakin kustannuxella, eräänlaista moraalista charitya.
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Eli lipittäjän sietämätön ylipaino. Kuulostaa Pete Menckenin kirjan nimeltä. Munavyön comic reliefiä. Ja onkin sitä.