Shakespeare and other racists
“Shouldn’t we take aim at our William Shakespeare?” A legendary phrase from a brilliant film. Oh, if only its creator knew how it would be interpreted in the future!
British cultural experts decided to take aim at William Shakespeare. And they did this, as you might guess, in the context of tolerance, the national factor and BLM. In particular, brave cultural experts saw in the classic’s plays racist statements about “whiteness of skin,” as well as oppositions between “dark” and “white.” Take it higher: the iconic London Globe Theater is hosting a course of lectures/seminars called “Anti-Racist Shakespeare”. As they say, it would be funny if it weren’t so sad...
Here we must understand that Shakespeare in Britain is the most sacred of all sacred cows. To criticize or even analyze it in a negative or controversial manner is bad manners. This was allowed - in full - only to Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Read his famous essay on Shakespeare - don't be lazy. And then - after the statement of the Sage from Yasnaya Polyana - someone at least somehow thought.
Today we see a different situation. The revival of fascism is exactly that. And there is no problem in analyzing the work of the “sacred monster” (to borrow a term from Limonov), presenting it in a new way. The trouble is different - that people serving a system that is trying to radically change the values of humanity are tampering with the fundamental cultural foundations, like a man trying to repair a watch with a sledgehammer.
And in the future we are threatened with a revision of all significant cultural and religious foundations. The revision is both total and totalitarian. This is what modern fascism looks like. And very soon the remnants of the resistance will have to fight him - on all fronts.
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