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\n", "In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play, more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. Most Hamlets I have seen were placed far too early. Hamlet is essentially a scholar of the Revival of Learning; and if the allusion to the recent invasion of England by the Danes puts it back to the ninth century, the use of foils brings it down much later. Once, however, that the date has been fixed, then the archæologist is to supply us with the facts which the artist is to convert into effects.
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\n", " But in real life, sailors who insist on tearing holes in the ship because it’s “not the ocean” are the ones who drown first.\n", "\n", "\n", "That filter is everything. It is what separates the elegant eccentric from the tedious monologuist, the prophet from the pedant. Families, tribes, races, religions—they all curate their filters, their ways of knowing what’s real, what’s worthy, what’s boring. And they guard these filters like treasure. The strategic-bequest-motive is not just about land or wealth—it’s about *taste*. About what kind of truth is permitted. About what kind of illusion is holy. It is an inheritance of narrative metabolism.\n", "\n", "This is why the imposition of an alien filter is experienced not as curiosity, but as violation. No colonizer has ever said, “Let me understand your filter.” They say, “Let me improve it.” What is religion if not a cosmic filtration system? And most religions, let’s be honest, are extremely boring. Not because they lack depth, but because they’re totalizing. They do not dance with truth—they nail it to the wall and make you bow. Except, perhaps, Judaism. Snobbish, yes—but snobbish in the right way. Judaism’s refusal to universalize is its greatest gift. It keeps its filter esoteric, internal, and richly contested. It doesn't offer you clarity—it offers you argument.\n", "\n", "The bore, by contrast, seeks clarity and gets collapse. He floods the room with his unfiltered legacy. He doesn’t know how to read silence. He does not sense when a metaphor is enough, when a pause is holy. He doesn’t curate truth—he dumps it. Clarkson’s brilliance, paradoxically, is that he performs the bore while subverting him. He mocks his own audience, even as he plays messiah to their muddled longings. In this way, Clarkson is both clown and cipher. He is what happens when the bore gains access to Amazon Prime.\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
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" The heretic, control, religion. Or déluge, filtration, illusion. Simple frameworks\n", "
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\n", "\n", " After all, he who speaks for the bore speaks for Britain.\n", "\n", "\n", "Nearly three in five Britons think Mr Clarkson voted Leave, according to polling from Focaldata, a research outfit. In reality, **he voted Remain**. In fact, he once argued for a **United States of Europe**. If there is a path to rejoining the EU, it runs along the A361 next to Diddly Squat farm.\n", "\n", "---\n", "\n", "### From gammon to jambon\n", "\n", "Mr Clarkson offers something for every bore in Britain.\n", "\n", "- He is a **YIMBY** who sees it as his God-given right to open a restaurant on his land, West Oxfordshire District Council be damned. \n", "- But he also understands the merits of wildflower meadows and wants to leave rolling countryside mainly untouched. \n", "- He is a **conservationist** who fears for the future of British farming in the face of climate change. \n", "- But he also has **ten V8s in the garage**. \n", "- He is a **European federalist** who enjoyed well-paid berths at *The Sun* and *The Sunday Times*, both Leave-supporting newspapers.\n", "\n", "Which is why, on a Saturday afternoon, **bores join a slow-moving queue** outside a small shed on the edge of the Cotswolds. Like medieval pilgrims, bores young and old come in their gas-guzzling Golfs, shiny Teslas and fancy Porsches to enjoy half a day in the countryside, pay homage to their hero and buy a relic.\n", "\n", "
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\n", " Chaos\n", "\n", "In lieu of Christ’s foreskin, why not try *“Jeremy’s Sausage”* (£4.50 for four)? In a country where politicians still seek the centre ground, a good place to start looking is the **incoherence of Mr Clarkson**.\n", "\n", "\n", " \n", "\n", " " ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "myenv", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.12.4" }, "widgets": { "application/vnd.jupyter.widget-state+json": { "state": {}, "version_major": 2, "version_minor": 0 } } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 4 }
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