the weekender died this past weekedend. and me and all my wildly intellectual friends couldn't quite figure out if its faliure is purely and exclusively 'credit crisis' related. or rather, and perhaps more disturbing to our delicate elitist sensibilities, the weekender's demise is symptomatic of of this new age of counter-intellectualism that seems to be grabbing hold, at least in our public discourse.
our collective appetite for sane-ness and wonderment in our public discourse is slowly and canceroulsy giving way to the easy sound-bite, which never takes any prisoners.
we are all lazy now, malema-fied and fatigued. it's easier to report and comment on julius' musings then it is not to.
we think the juxtaposition fits.
aside and ps: the only silver lining is that there is now one less platform for xolela mangcu in this universe
true true, very true. couldn't agree more.
ReplyDeletethe weekender was a good paper, in theory, but it was a bit of an intellectual wank. no-one ACTUALLY ever read the Weekender, it was nice to reference amongst people, if the aim was to imppress, at best it was a good thing to 'wear'
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