Well, a bit of Latin is always good, though I can't speak for Greek. But then the little fuckers will inevitably progress to Nietzsche and it's all ubermensching and "I R Superior And Can Kill Like in Rope" from there.
Well. If you do Latin, you are clearly Superior. You will come into the orbit of other Superior Beings, who will tell you all about the kewl books they read and how they are so grate. In order to maintain conversational ability and credibility with said people, you will read their recommendations, and sooner or later it'll be Brothers Karamazov and deep thinkiness about morality and reason, and Nietsche will inevitably surface at some stage as these people (also known as Clever Boys and The Other Boys who Want To Be Them and also Some Girls) aim to be more and more esoteric and more and more deeply ingrained in modern philosophical wank which nonetheless shores up their ideal personal vision of themselves as superior beings who the rest of humanity simply Do Not Understand. In conclusion, Hitler. Or possibly Emo
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See, this is why EVERYONE needs to learn Latin, so there is no hierarchy of superiority. And also so that everyone understands how language works and doesn't put apostrophes and vestigially inflected pronouns in the Do Not Understand basket. *Nods sagely also*
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It rather annoys me that there are perfectly good reasons for people in general learning Latin, but instead we get this Boris-logic. Bah.
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