Here is a rare example of absolutely empty writing.
The quality of writing, the writing style, the structure, is fine. The piece begins, develops, ends. It moves from point to point using transitional phrases. It closes with concern and hope.
But it has nothing to do with reality. It is an argument about the future that at no point touches on any possible future. And the writer must know that.
SOS applauds the fortitude that allowed this editorial writer to get up out of bed and type out these paragraphs.
April 28th, 2010 at 4:21PM
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
Did you find that empty also?
April 28th, 2010 at 4:42PM
Absolutely empty, Pete. Even in my full hippie glory I found that song absolutely empty.
May 14th, 2010 at 3:39PM
Oh. The Kentucky team has its own college? That’s cool. I mean, that would be cool if I didn’t hate school so very much. I sometimes wonder if one day homeschoolers will also be able to play in great basketball teams without going through high school. Maybe for sports clubs such as the ones in Europe and Latin America? But this won’t happen in the USA, I know. Perhaps you would also like that, if the whole sports thing were taken off the schools.
I love this blog, by the way. Keep it up! Please do correct any blunders I may have made here, English is not my first language.
May 14th, 2010 at 4:10PM
Your English is excellent, Gui O. Thanks for the kind words about the blog.