What would the things
of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?
Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas.
Half the catalogue of ships is mine:
that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line,
that once rose, out of Hellas.
To an alien land, like a phalanx of cranes –
Foam of the gods on the heads of kings –
Where do you sail? What would the things
of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen?
The sea, or Homer – all moves by love’s glow.
Which should I hear? Now Homer is silent,
and the Black Sea thundering its oratory, turbulent,
and, surging, roars against my pillow.
Same question in a mirror: why some cultures promote phoniness and avoid true feelings?
Actually I wonder why some cultures are prone to inflicting genocide.
Perhaps you are referring to some dictatorships, e.g. fascism in Italy, where people where expected to be cheerful and optimistic at all times and being gloomy or pessimistic was strongly discouraged by the government.
Nice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally optimistic communist dictatorship.
I think those folks that downvoted my comment had a different idea and, perhaps, felt it's too close to home for comfort.
What does an education system have to do with academics? It makes way more sense when educators provide education and education managers run the system.
