bs2> THESE are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye:
The weak lay hand on what the strong has done,
Till that be tumbled that was lifted high
And discord follow upon unison,
And all things at one common level lie.
...
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.
> TOIL and grow rich,
What's that but to lie
With a foul witch
And after, drained dry,
To be brought
To the chamber where
Lies one long sought
With despair.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy097.htm
#Yeats, #poem #Success #WilliamJames #BitchGoddess #LordsOfWar #Lockheed #Raytheon
> ... understandable in onlooking citizens only as a symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. Hit it hard! Your book must have a great effect. Do you remember the glorious remarks about success in Chesterton’s “Heretics”?
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease
Brian Small.> We have taught them a few formulas of morality, utterly unpractical and impossible to apply—as we prove by not applying them ourselves. From their social life the students learn what the real world is—a place of class distinctions based upon property; they learn the American religion—what William James calls “the worship of the bitch-goddess Success.” They throw themselves into the social struggle with ferocious determination to get ahead; and when they go out into the world, they carry that spirit into the commercial struggle. #UptonSinclair on #Success and the #GooseStep approach in #AmericanEducation #USAEducation #ExclusiveWorship of #BitchGoddess Success
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
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- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
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