20201213 Sunday
It was on Friday but I’ve been thinking of it and it makes me sick.
Sonnet 40
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call—
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed if thou this self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robb’ry, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites, yet we must not be foes.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50426/sonnet-40-take-all-my-loves-my-love-yea-take-them-all
How many twisted levels of illogic are even in there?
Illogic 非論理的
America became obsessed with free-dumb: the idea of freedom as the removal of all restraint, the right to harm others, the ability to do anything you please, no matter how destructive, toxic, foolish, or inane.
Inane 馬鹿げた 意味のない
in・ane/ ɪnéɪn / (米国英語)/ ˌɪˈneɪn / (英国英語)
I’ll come to that in a moment. First, you might think I overstate the case.
Overstate 大げさ
This was a Nietzschean view of power and society — the ones who rose to the top should be the ubermensch: those only concerned with their own “will-to-power,” that is, with making their own selfish desires manifest, who could subjugate as many others as possible, and make servants or slaves of them.
subjugate 征服 従属させる
https://eand.co/why-freedom-became-free-dumb-in-america-4947e39663f2
Eudaimonia 幸福