Lob der bereinigten Vernunft.

[anselmo_b]

Lob der bereinigten Vernunft.

Religion aus der Öffentlichkeit verbannen,
Den Aberglauben.
Und dann gewisse Wissenschaften,
Bestimmte Ideologien,
Vulgäre Ansichten,
Und die Meinung der ungebildeten,
Gefühle die unangebracht
Hervorbrechen,
Alles was nervt
-Das Gehirn unappetitlich reizt,
All das
Was nicht aus kalten Fakten
Mit strenger Logik herzuleiten ist,
Die

Comments

[jackfirecat]

Banish further, banish faster, a language or two, it does not matter...

Interesting choice of German, feels like something that German would be good at saying it in; did you find that?; do you find your different languages lend themselves better to saying different things in?

(I'm reading in Google translate)

[anselmo_b]

Thinking of what you said, German being good for saying it in, I wonder if any German that read it would detect the irony...

[jackfirecat]

'any German?' Das ist ein zu weites Feld

[jackfirecat]

(I am aware of the phrase's usual meaning; I am deliberately repurposing it. /german)

[anselmo_b]

In this case the choice of language was pretty banal and natural, I felt provoked by what a German wrote. I think that languages do lend themselves to saying some particular things in them, but personally I seem to choose by mood.

[joculum]

I'm somewhere between amused and roused to curiosity by Google Translate's version of this poem in English. (My German is sufficient to catch the overall tone of irony...or maybe just my knowledge of poetry...but I'm too half-asleep this morning to assemble all the syntax and remember all the vocabulary.)