that the actress had never even read Iliad/Odyssey ... shows how deficient our schools are. (Of course, we have some clerics who’ve obviously never read the Bible, or deconstruct it by imposing inappropriate revisionist readings into/onto it). we read the Homeric epics in high school, but quite a bit of water’s flowed past the bridge since.
Since, our society’s been (largely-deliberately imho) deprived of meaningful education, learning, learning how to learn. That void has then be replaced by an entire sewer full of leftist/communist/nazi/”progressive” nihilistic krap, all designed (again, imho) to render the individual as incompetent to function as responsible adult citizens in a working society.
It is in the public schools. It is in the unions. It is in the colleges, universities. It is in the mass media. It is in our public square, political discourse (or what garbage now passes for political discourse). It is in our government of course. And social media, technology has not helped (to put it mildly). Already, youngsters are using AI to write their homework assignments for them. And some teachers are using AI to write their lectures for them. Even some attorneys have been caught using AI to write their court filings, briefs for them. And we have electronic signatures and auto=pens and “click boxes” to so-easily falsely-certify that ideas have been generated or received and read and reviewed and understood by real, compos mentis human beings.
The human being, at least as responsible adult citizen in society, is being rendered redundant. Into “useless eaters,” indeed. The widespread nature of anti-life attitudes (abortion factories, perversion of health care into assisted suicides, applause and support for savage terrorists, all of these things supported by government policies, laws, and taxpayer funding)....
The widespread nature of these sorts of death-promoting attitudes and official policies.... is both an objective, imho, and certainly a predictable consequence of the “progressivist” or “democratic socialist” nihilism that’s being foistered on us.
the severity of what’s been, is being done to us as individual people and as a society ... is readily apparent. We are being inducted into a death cult. (which explains the leftists’ adoration and enabling of the Islamicist terrorist murder gangsters along with the communists and nazis of the world past and present).
The very purposes of life are being “deconstructed” for, taken awa from us.
As Dostoevsky told us over a century ago,
“The mystery of human existence lies not just staying alive, but in finding something to live for...”
“ that the actress had never even read Iliad/Odyssey ... ”
So what?
98% of the critics on this forum haven’t read it