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Brings to mind the powerful critique Isabel Waidner makes in the final paragraph of her essay-play, 'The Prince of Homburg':
'UK publishing professionals are always wondering why the working classes aren't engaging with canonical literature. Books come cheap off the Amazon, so--? What's your excuse? You too dumb to read this? Ill-educated, and lazy? You prefer sci-fi and Netflix, you unintelligent shits? But the working-classes are disengaging, not because they lack educational capital or intelligence, but because literature is stupid. It gets almost everything wrong.'
@garyhall Posh people and their privileged lives do not interest me. Science Fiction gives me an escape from their posh world, something to hope for.
I honestly can't stand the writing of Posh Brits, I see it in newspaper columns and coming out of the mouths of our politicians and it's all self indulgent purple prose. I can barely manage a paragraph of it before I throw it away in rage.
The Boris fucking Johnson is the epitome of it.