Jonathan Meades :: Remember The Future (2/3)

[@arkiescultor]

Gracias Mateo por esta deliciosa experiencia, Jonathan Meades, visual y muy elocuente, me lleva al entendimiento De temas socioeconomicos complejos y divertidos.

[@adecentusername]

@belisariusorb yeah: as a vegetarian, environmentally minded chap, I often don't agree with Meades, yet I find a lot of what he says far more stimulating and interesting than conversations with some of my fellow travellers. He's a polemicist, yes; but he's also a synthesist, and is always trying to get at the common idea, the pattern, the key that makes sense of the disparate. Yet it's a very short step from finding a pattern to imposing it, which is where his prejudices do occasionally show.

[@nakedmambo]

Good point. It has always bothered me that Meades wants to portray his polemics as 'no nonsense common sense', but the actual basis of small 'c' conservatism is glaringly obvious. As a consequence he seems to have a natural prejudice against every alleged 'fad' - vegetarianism/veganism, environmentalism etc. He's a good critic who can easily unravel hypocritical positions, but doesn't succeed so well in critiquing his own.

[@rhonataylor85]

Give me escapist whimsy every time!😂. He can keep modernism.

[@ajs41]

Ego makes the world go round.

[@Sheriff1071]

Interesting!

[@kernel2006]

Is the 'brobdingnag' thing a joke? If so can someone please explain it?

[@ejws1575]

Swift - gulliver’s travels

[@zetetick395]

In Jonathan Swift's Gullivers Travels Lilliput was the homeland of miniature peoples and Brobdingnag was the land of giant peoples