#QuizOfTheDay: A national #Anthem is a song that praises a country and is officially accepted as its song.

Which #Poet composed National Anthem of two countries?

A. Francis Scott Key
B. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
C. Nie Er
D. Rabindranath Tagore

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=60954e0df3862967c2d9d80e

Once again.... Here's another piece of evidence to why the world was simply a better place in the 80s!

https://youtu.be/6ioUIKfdSKA

#80s #Fun #Rock #Anthem #ActionHeroes #TV #Action #AI #AIVideo

“To The Instances” is an anthem celebrating the unity of social media, inspired by the song “A las barricadas,” the anarcho-syndicalist anthem of the CNT

https://suno.com/s/lKShC09oxAejRZZH #anthem #mastodon #Fediverse

Buffalo fans come together to sing Canadian national anthem after singer’s mic cuts out

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/buffalo-fans-come-together-to-finish-singing-canadian-national-anthem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buffalo-fans-come-together-to-finish-singing-canadian-national-anthem

I've read about Ayn Rand, and I've read short extracts from "Atlas Shrugged", supposedly her magnum opus.

Those extracts did not inspire me to plough through the whole of "Atlas Shrugged", but I thought to be fair I ought to read a complete work of hers, so I picked up a copy of her 1938 novella "Anthem".

In a repressive, techophobic, collectivist dystopia, a young man rebels, rediscovers electricity, and then escapes from captivity to be joined by his female lover. He hopes to rebuild a society based on individualism -- "Anthem" concludes with the protagonist determined to carve into the stone portal of his fort the "sacred word EGO".

Rand's writing is lifeless, with both characters and setting being little more than vehicles for the author's ponderous didacticism. The slight romance narrative smacks of sub-Hollywood teenage fantasy, with the protagonist renaming his lover "The Golden One", followed by her dubbing him 'The Unconquered".

The concluding pages are supposed to be a poetic invocation of egoism. Instead, they come across as Rand attempting to club the reader into submission.

I am pained to learn that this book is frequently assigned in US high schools, as it is devoid of literary merit and of no great significance in literary or cultural history. If teachers or school districts want to assign a mid 20C "antitotalitarian" work, why not press copies of "1984" into students' hands?

Nevertheless my afternoon was not entirely wasted, as I can now get through the rest of my life without having to read another word of this tiresome crank, yet have a clear conscience when I describe her as possessing not a shred of literary talent, because my judgment is based on a first hand acquaintance with her writing.

#Books #Literature #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #AynRand #Anthem #RightWing