Saturday, October 6, 2012

Abêtissement passif

We have  time and again  had occasion to link to the radio-essays of M. Fouad Laroui -- “écrivain marocain d’expression française”, as we say in the trade.   Here is his latest, on stultification (abaissement du niveau mental):

The title puns on the phrase tabagisme passif -- “second-hand smoke” -- and might be translated “second-hand stupidity”.

He mostly squibs Internet niaiserie about celebs -- an easy, almost a lazy target.   But much the same occurs these days, whenever I hear Republicans spouting and expounding:  you can just feel the brain-cells, dying one by one …

On a more serious, even sombre note, concerning a deeper kind of abêtissement:
 

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Pour d’autres friandises
de la confiserie 
du docteur Justice,
consultez:

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