Bernie: CIVILITY!! NORM!!

French aristocrat knights, c. 14th century: “how dare these English peasants shoot me with longbows!!! Where’s their chivalry!!!”

(Actual military history may vary)

"Before Christ" and "In the Year of the Lord" are just factually wrong though — Jesus of Nazareth was born no later than 4 BCE, the year of Herod's death.

ABBA = are bad bureaucracies all?

I used to have no idea why so many “rad” academics love their Arendt. Now I do.

ancient Chinese heaven didn’t take nukes into account

It looks like the US hegemony is getting only stronger, not weaker, no matter what it does.

“If Heaven wants someone to perish, it’d first make them go unhinged,” actual Chinese proverb (天欲其亡必欲其狂)

This is pure gold. On the sentence level, paragraph level, overall level, plus of course the absolutely savage satire. Just :chefs-kiss:

I work in higher ed and I wish I could receive something as good and REAL as this in my grading grind.