People who make poignant yet disconcerting points are quite typically accused of being 'childish, stupid' etc.
The point underpinning the article is a valid one to make, regardless of whether one personally agrees with it or not.
People who are good at making poignant yet disconcerting points achieve their objective through subtlety and wit. This article is simply crap and isn't intelligent in any way.
There are many better ways to highlight the devastation of war (if anyone is truly daft enough not to already get this) and remembering that each poppy represents a life is one of them.
There are many better ways to highlight the devastation of war (if anyone is truly daft enough not to already get this) and remembering that each poppy represents a life is one of them.
perhaps it is actually a bit creepy. Each poppy represents a person. Are people going to keep them in their basements and do weird stuff to them every night...?
See, at the start of this thread I thought it was a neat idea but could have been better written. But seeing the number of people who seem to actually think it's a real thing, it's clearly not as badly-written as I thought. And now I actually like it, if only for the fact that this thread has had a couple of genuinely hysterical moments.
Mmm, okay satire but I'll bet the person who wrote it has never faced down a tank or gun in their lives. Still, it is very hard to top the voices of some of the war poets (who also despaired of the glorification and romanticism of war)...they have the added 'advantage' of having been there, I guess.
I saw that and, to be honest, it's actually a pretty good idea. Everyone would sit back and think 'what a waste' and then maybe some small percentage of those may think a bit more about what they represent..
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People who are good at making poignant yet disconcerting points achieve their objective through subtlety and wit. This article is simply crap and isn't intelligent in any way.
There are many better ways to highlight the devastation of war (if anyone is truly daft enough not to already get this) and remembering that each poppy represents a life is one of them.
perhaps it is actually a bit creepy. Each poppy represents a person. Are people going to keep them in their basements and do weird stuff to them every night...?
I'm thinking "bludgeon" myself.
The author was trying a little too hard IMHO.
I was there yesterday, and they didn't look like volunteers, they looked like council workmen with forklifts and large tents full of packing boxes.
I saw that and, to be honest, it's actually a pretty good idea. Everyone would sit back and think 'what a waste' and then maybe some small percentage of those may think a bit more about what they represent..
Were they wearing poppies?
On the 13th?