Comments on: Cloud cuckoo land

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:41:24 +0000

examples of “Cloud cuckoo land”
i prefer “bat sh*t crazy”…
among many other colorful terms.

here are two SJW feminist BLM, etc..

Crazy Feminist Gets Triggered and Screams Over Man’s Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ImSupXt3g

Feminist’s CRAZY MELTDOWN in a Taxi over Bobblehead toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4lXU2Php8

its interesting seeing the movement i helped create and such go forward – MGTOW is in many countries now, funded, etc… i guess i missed out on an alternative career… ha ha.. (you can read my articles if you can find them… )

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NEONEOCON: The Wiki article then goes on to tell of many instances of the phrase’s use in politics by people such as Thatcher, Gingrich, Henry Wallace, and Paul Krugman, plus some artistic references to it.

I had no idea.

can i file this under “read what the opposition reads” to understand them? that i had said they look down on you because you dont, and they ignore your commentary because we dont… ie. they think they are better edumacated and so your thoughts and ideas arent worth hearing as they are not even in their context!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they quote lots of other old things…
and only those who have read the cannons and all that poli sci, and the leaders of feminist commentary, and on and on… can even think of participating..

Kennedy said: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country

but that was really Pericles… ruler of tyre..
for a start i would start with the historians and rhetoric/speech experts… like Livius, plutarch, etc.
or Tacitus or Cicero…

they are way ahead of you
you cant even speak with them given one does not have the right “references” and knowlege, so can have nothing to add…

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 15:17:50 +0000

Once more it seems “There is no new thing under the sun”.

By: CDville

CDville — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 01:10:20 +0000

Martin, I followed the link to that tvtrope site and found this: “The name of the trope comes from the city built on air above the Greek plain in Aristophanes’ play The Birds, 414 B.C., whose ruler had quite a large mental gap between the dreamy, wide-eyed, idealistic Utopia that he imagined his city to be and the brutal totalitarian regime that he had actually imposed on it.”

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 23:56:54 +0000

A more contemporary reference:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cloudcuckoolander

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:01:16 +0000

It’s also a setting for part of the Lego Movie (and one of my favorite parts, no less)

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:50:39 +0000

I acted in that play by Aristophanes when I was in 8th grade.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:06:48 +0000

I can’t recall ever having heard the term before, though certainly the word cukoo itself. What I find most interesting is the appropriateness of this term when applied to the disagreement here as to whether we should vote for Trump. More than a few here assert myself to be firmly ensconced within Cloud cuckoo land 🙂 Of course I hold the same but opposite view. As always, reality will have the last say…

By: Brian Swisher

Brian Swisher — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:04:47 +0000

I knew that. I also know the croaking chorus from “The Frogs” of Aristphanes.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:37:18 +0000

And the funny thing is that I read both of them the same semester, and never made the connection that I remember.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:36:29 +0000

Interesting. I remember the idea from the play, but don’t remember it from the Friedrich Nietzsche essay- both of which I read while in college.