humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Mar 15, 7:19=A0am, "Paul Crowley"
wrote:
> "Peter Groves" wrote in message
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> > "WaterBoy" wrote in message
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> >> hi all,
>
> >> i consider myself a Dem, or left leaning,
> >> and i feel Shakespeare wrote his own canon
> >> [boring combination i know]
>
> >> what's yours?
>
> >> waterboy
>
> > Boring or not, it's the intelligent choice, with which I concur.
>
> It's intelligent only in the sense that
> it was intelligent for an Englishman
> under Mary to praise the pope, or it
> was intelligent for a Russian under
> Stalin to abuse Trotsky.
>
> Who would want to put in jeopardy
> that monthly cheque? =A0Or that hope
> (however slight) of promotion? --
> And for what? =A0Truth? =A0What the heck
> is that? =A0And what possible relevance
> could that have in academia?
>
> Paul.

It is interesting to compare political outlooks with authorship
outlooks. I claim that authoritarians--rigidniks, as I call them--
both leftwing (shoot smokers) and rightwing--who get intensely and
knowledgeably involved in the authorship question will inevitably
become anti-Stratfordians. Others can, too, but rarely with anything
like the intensity of the rigidniks. I have to admit that there are
apparent exceptions to my rule. I'm still working on my explanation
of them. One good explanation for some is that a rigidnik may develop
a rigidniplex (or delusional system) for some A that contradicts and
therefore prevents his development of a rigidniplex for some B (like
anti-Stratfordianism. An extreme Marxist thus may be more horrified
at the idea of an aristocrat as Shakespeare than of a self-reliant
individualist--the case with our boy, Spinoza, at least in part. Of
course, it's complex, and (obviously) I don't have enough facts about
most of my subjects to prove anything. I have enough facts about our
number one rigidnik, Paul Crowley, to do so, however.

As for my politics, I'm a constitutional anarchist. I despise
political correctness and republicrats.

--Bob G.