What a magical world we have when, if someone wants something to be a something else, all he or she has to do is simply say so
We live in interesting times. As tiresome as the phrase is, hardly a day passes when some story doesn’t put the mind on pause, stuck in wonder at how strange things have become.
It also struck me that Art, capital A, has wandered a long way downhill since Michelangelo blessed the world with his Pietà, or closer to our time, Turner crafted the explosive wonder of The Slave Ship. Time was, art required executive skills, unique imagination, deep study and practice, and in many cases extreme, self-devouring dedication. Now, given a banana and a roll of duct tape, all that’s really required is for the right people to say it’s art. .
One doesn’t need to look up Politics and the English Language to understand that if merely asserting something is what it plainly isn’t — in many cases its exact opposite, in fact — unhinging words from their meaning, becomes acceptable, the world will fairly quickly become a crazed and unbearable jumble. Living in such would feel like being chained to a chair, trapped, watching endless cycles of Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on The View.
An even more outré exhibition of this new logic has embroiled perhaps the world’s most famous author, J.K. Rowling. Rowling tweeted support for a researcher who lost her job at a British think-tank over tweets that were described by some as “discriminating and offensive.” And what brought on the researcher’s tribulations? At their very core was her statement that: “There are two sexes, male and female. Men and boys are male. Women and girls are female. It is impossible to change sex.
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