B. U. G. S.

By polydoros

Romantics say there were “Golden Ages” in prehistory, before there was ANY writing. Conveniently, there are no records to prove otherwise.

Mommy Professor writes to get her meal ticket. She says there were “Golden Ages” when there was the MOST writing.

The “Golden Ages” of Mommy Professor always involve LITERATURE. The Elizabethan period to her is a LITERARY “Golden Age”. But the texts fawned over by Mommy Professor had no bearing on England’s POLITICAL POWER. The plays of “Shakespeare” disappeared for decades after being written. Meanwhile England grew its territory and political power.

Few notice this. But Europe’s “high” literature from the “early modern period” was remarkably SILENT about the New World. Considering the colonization of the New World was so significant, why was it so rarely written about?

The literature of Mommy Professor doesn’t refer to reality. Her “Golden Ages” usually happen during or just before a massive collapse! Periclean Athens was the cause of Athens’ total defeat to the Spartans. Rome’s “Golden Age” included the final destruction of the Roman Republic. The most approved of Spanish texts were from Spain’s decline. Germans’ literary “Golden Age” was when Napoleon took over.

Under Napoleon, people called the Germans “the Folk of poets and thinkers”. To Mommy Professor that is a compliment. This just shows how silly Mommy Professor is! “The Folk of poets and thinkers” was about “educated” Germans who were lost in “high” literature and being trounced. They were a laughing stock.

Enemy soldiers can be marching through the streets. But so long as “intellectuals” are publishing, Mommy Professor will call it a “Golden Age”.