Posted on 05/02/2022 1:19:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Spanish novel, written by Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, is often credited as the first modern novel in Western literature. Literally translated to English, the title reads “The Ingenious Low-Born Nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.”
The inclusion of “ingenious” describing the title character is a curious choice, given that Don Quixote is, in fact, a crazy old man named Alonso Quixano that imagines himself a gallant knight. He mounts his trusty steed (a skinny nag) and dons his shining armor (with a shaving basin for a helmet) in order to fight giants (that are, in reality, windmills), while his trustworthy squire (his short, fat, yet profoundly loyal servant named Sancho Panza) supports his quest to win the hand of his Dulcinea del Toboso (a chaste maiden that he invents in his mind).
In short, Alonso Quixano is delusional, and, in throes of his madness, he is bent on imposing his own self-perception upon the world around him. So, how is it that he could be “ingenious?”
Particularly later in the novel, “the narrator and several characters observe” that he is “remarkably intelligent and knowledgeable.” But Rivka Galchen, writing in the New York Times, suggests that Don Quixote may not be so much crazy as he is calculated, and deviously self-serving:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Excellent article. Thanks for the link. My work has recently forced all employees to watch a “Coming out at work” video and encourages us to become “ally’s”. It is completely offensive.
I’d say this sums it up perfectly. “The power move of eccentricity” is an apt phrase. I used to compare transgenders to people who think they are Napoleon, and demand the right to rule France, but Don Quixotism is a great analogy.
Good essay.
“Emperor” Norton of California is another delusional real person.
Excellent.
Thanks to you, I looked up the “glass” person phenomena. Wonder if the current mass display of bizarre points of view and body dysphoria are cousins to the same psychological delusional disorder.
NHS accused of prioritising trans people for breast surgery over women with medical needs
It's not just our Deep State waging a war on women.
And let's hear it for socialized medicine while we're at it!
Clap for carers!
Hysteria. (The term refers to the uterus I think - hysterectomy). Recall the “crying girls” hysteria in Europe (?) back in the 50’s (?)
The premise of the piece refers to the harm done to others, not only by a madman but by the people who indulge and encourage him and ignore his outrageous behaviors and speech. Which premise reaches much further than the trans issue in this country.
America is being savaged by an army of Quixotes led by Don Brandon.
The only person in Don Quixote that could be considered a “tranny” was a young boy captured by the Turks.
He pretended to be a girl since the Turks preferred buggering young boys. Once recaptured by the Spanish, he doffed his girl’s clothing and became a young male again.
Anybody who wants to attack the gigantes (windmills) is all right with me.
I remember a young boy forty five years who claimed to be Fonzie from the TV show Happy Days. His family played into his delusion. He irritated everyone till he finally grew out of it.
Some people just don’t want to grow up as it brings attention to themselves.
Last year, on Facebook, I mentioned that there was no difference between Ed Gein, Norman Bates (Psycho) and Richard Levine as all wanted to become women by different means.
WHAM! Instant 30 days in FB jail.
Zuck loves his trannies.
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