The Cast of Hamilton Sends a Strong Message to Mike Pence (After the Crowd Jeers Him)

Jeer­ing is uncul­tured, get a life.

this in the year i’ve been fol­low­ing Open Cul­ture is the first overt polit­i­cal­ly biased post­ing that I can remem­ber

Trump and Pence are “tar­nished by alle­ga­tions.…” Unlike Hillary, of course, who appar­ent­ly isn’t tar­nished at all by not *alle­ga­tions*, but *proof* of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty (Project Ver­i­tas, Beng­hazi, the apt­ly-named “Clin­ton Foun­da­tion”). I’m sure, how­ev­er, that we’ll get some GREAT Closed Cul­ture links and com­men­tary on those scan­dals any day now.…

Please spon­ta­neous­ly post any crap you want… it’s all human, all inter­est­ing… so tired of the mono­lat­er­al tun­nel­s­peak spewed ad nau­se­am by the US intel­li­gentsia these days. God, we used to admire it !

That would depend entire­ly on your def­i­n­i­tion of cul­ture. I sus­pect your’s is quite restric­tive :)

I flipped into the com­ments expect­ing to see a thought­ful con­ver­sa­tion about what hap­pened at Hamil­ton. Instead I found a lot of pre­sump­tu­ous read­ers telling Open Cul­ture how to man­age their affairs. When Hamil­ton sends a mes­sage to Pence, it seems like the debate should be about the mes­sage Hamil­ton sent to Pence. The com­ments I read here seem like an unin­tel­li­gent way of shut­ting down what could be a rich­er con­ver­sa­tion.

That’s just my take.

Bill

Great arti­cle. Not all read­ers are Amer­i­can, so would not be read­ing about such occur­rences on ‘CNN’. Thank you for the post.

Noth­ing new as cul­ture is diverse and evolv­ing. We can only view and appre­ci­ate our part with­in our cul­ture through the intro­spec­tive hard look­ing into a mir­ror and seing who is look­ing back..

As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII, by William Shake­speare

JAQUES:

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i’ the for­est,
A mot­ley fool; a mis­er­able world!

.….….….….…

DUKE SENIOR

Thou seest we are not all alone unhap­py:
This wide and uni­ver­sal the­atre
Presents more woe­ful pageants than the scene
Where­in we play in.

JAQUES

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women mere­ly play­ers:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being sev­en ages. At first the infant,
Mewl­ing and puk­ing in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whin­ing school-boy, with his satchel
And shin­ing morn­ing face, creep­ing like snail
Unwill­ing­ly to school. And then the lover,
Sigh­ing like fur­nace, with a woe­ful bal­lad
Made to his mis­tress’ eye­brow. Then a sol­dier,
Full of strange oaths and beard­ed like the pard,
Jeal­ous in hon­our, sud­den and quick in quar­rel,
Seek­ing the bub­ble rep­u­ta­tion
Even in the can­non’s mouth. And then the jus­tice,
In fair round bel­ly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of for­mal cut,
Full of wise saws and mod­ern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slip­per’d pan­taloon,
With spec­ta­cles on nose and pouch on side,
His youth­ful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big man­ly voice,
Turn­ing again toward child­ish tre­ble, pipes
And whis­tles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange event­ful his­to­ry,
Is sec­ond child­ish­ness and mere obliv­ion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every­thing.

–

Cheers, Doug Stead

Per­pe­tra­tors, col­lab­o­ra­tors, bystanders, vic­tims: we can be clear about three of these cat­e­gories. The bystanders, how­ev­er, act as a ful­crum and “All that is nec­es­sary for the tri­umph of evil is that good peo­ple do noth­ing”. If you are not a part of the solu­tion, you are part of the prob­lem! With apolo­gies to Edmund Burke (1729 ~ 1797).