Aesop's Foibles VI: A Modest Contribution to the Decline of Western Civilisation (Volume 6)
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Rothschild, Walter
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2022
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Here in this sixth volume we start by reading about Aesop "his spirit lingers on like a damp smell in an unopened cellar." The pre-note finishes "one needs to build up adequate antibodies so as to be able to survive the encounters of the Blind reading the Bland" (3). Good satiric phrase! "Customer Service" (#501) rightly parodies what has become customer disservice! "Eleven Lines You Should Read Before You Die" (#522) starts with the central concerns -- "Be Happy. You don't know how long you have" -- but soon gets down to life insurance, elections, and bills. Moral? "Ok, you've done it. Now die!" (58-59). "The Wolf and Peter" (#549) is a good satire on totalitarian governments. "Clickbait and the Zoom researcher (#577) will resonate with any academic or businessperson who has had to live through Zoom for the past two years. A researcher, I take it, finds a virus growing right before him and mutating and looking back at him. Moral? "Beware of taking a Zoom with a View. You never know who might be looking back at you!" A last surprise here has been "All You Need to Know About the Middle East Conflict" (#597)." This time the reader faces two blank pages and the moral: "That's all really. You don't need to know Anything, it's not YOUR problem, best to keep your nose totally out of it, OK?" 266 pages.
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