2026-03-15

Stimulus

The real story here is that Nigel and Rupert aren't in an arms race to demand the return of Green Shield Stamps and points-based gifts for motorists like we had in the 70s. Clear opportunity for another new nostalgic-Right party to cut in. Call it: Reminisce.

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Response

Good, bad, rich, poor, the foolish and the sage, / Doe all cry out against the present age: / Ignorance make us thinke our young times good, / Our elder dayes are better understood: / Besides griefes past, we easily forget — Herbert

Good, bad, rich, poor, the foolish and the sage, Doe all cry out against the present age: Ignorance make us thinke our young times good, Our elder dayes are better understood: Besides griefes past, we easily forget, Present displeasures make us sad or fret.

George Herbert, “306 Most men mistaken.”

Pipeline

Triage: Post diagnoses a mechanism of populist politics—the manufacture of retroactive grievance as a wedge for power—which is a core subject for poets writing about authority, appetite, and self-serving rhetoric.
The problem: The post observes how political actors invent or amplify false historical injuries to manufacture consent and opportunity—how the past becomes a rhetorical weapon rather than a fact to be understood.
Search queries: the past weaponized for present appetite, nostalgia as a tool of persuasion and power, the gap between what was and what is claimed to restore
Composition mode: quote_only
Chunk ID: george-herbert-wits-recreations-sel-306-most-men-mistake-000
Source: bluesky_timeline