Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers
If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock - TOUGH LUCK ! - you have to employ some pharmaceutical company to manufacture it for you ! GOOD LUCK !
If you write « poetry » without first acquainting yourself with what has already been put out in the field over the ages - which might take/cost you a few « lifetimes » wholly devoted to the task - you might only be « beating the dead horse » over and over again, severally in theme, tone and style. TANT PIS !
If, on the other hand, someone or some school (might even be a « publisher ») tells you they can « teach » you how to write « great poetry », you should first try them out by asking them to write it themselves and win all the coveted prizes available (and they are legion!) in the field, y compris the NOBEL, before obviously following their advice, though they might not take kindly to hearing this from you, especially if you are a poet, yourself !
« Poetry" can be a very lucrative commodity bandied about by businessmen !
If, by common consent of all the governments in the world, LAWYERS/SOLLICITORS and their ilk are put on « salary » - financed through appropriation of one $ or one € from every wage-earner (the latter wouldn’t mind at all !) - there is little doubt for conjecture, before the end of the present generation ALL LAW FACULTIES all over the world will close down for good !
Likewise, if all governments paid so-called CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (with some notable exceptions like, perhaps, UNICEF, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, INSTITUT PASTEUR, MEDECINS SANS FRONTIER, to name just a few) to keep them from producing highly expensive publications in glossy techni-colour print (which no one ever reads, I’m certain, and which stokes the colossal « waste disposal » industry), the
« lungs » of the world like the Brazilian jungles won’t be suffering from DEEP VEINOUS THROMBOSIS !
True, « CRIME DOES (NOT) PAY », yet it’s the « criminal » who gets richer and richer at the expense of his victims, and, as everybody already knows, the « best » and richest lawyers are at the rich man’s beck and call to keep the LAW at bay ! LEGISLATION is almost always written by lawyer-politicians who provide « loopholes » for those who know how to look for them ! Whoever said: "JUSTICE is blind" is him/her-self « purblind » !
Back to Aurélien BARRAU, the young French Astrophysicist and Philosopher-Poet (he obtained with the highest academic honours
« doctorates » in astro-physics and philosophy from the best French academic establishments) - is right now the foremost « advocate » most eloquently campaigning against
« climate change » issues in France and has publicly declared, with proof in hand, that « climate change » is IRREVERSIBLE and its catastrophic consequences will occur in the lives of our children.
(See his book out this year: LE PLUS GRAND DEFI de l’HISTOIRE de l’HUMANITE: Face à la catastrophe écologique et sociale. Paris: Ed. Michel Lafon, 2019, 145p.)
Here are relevant quotes from this book: « Certain trends in the excesses of consumerism will by necessity result in economic decline. Perhaps even, sometimes, in the loss of comfort. But, if the (detrimental ecologic) situation were to become
« lethal » - and this’s the case today - economic growth cannot make any sense or be of any interest. The means defeats the end. » (p. 34) (…) « To migrate towards a vegetarian regime of dieting would be very beneficial for ecology: the industry devoted to meat production is one of the most pollution prone imaginable. One kilogram of beef requires 10,000 litres of water, even a calory of meat requires 4 to 11 calories of vegetable matter, animal husbandry emits more green-house gas than all other human activity - including transport - and, in 2050, this will be the primary cause of penury in food in the world. » And he goes on to say that the avoidance of meat consumption will reduce the incidence of cardio-vascular, diabetic and cancer-inducing diseases. (pp. 35-36)
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, July 12, 2019
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2019
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