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Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|I love you, but you are not serious people.<br>Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the great delamination, it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading out. I I know, I know: a smartarse who makes up cod Shakespeare and bellyaches about the I.S.D.A. is hardl...") |
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{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|I love you, but you are not serious people.<br>Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading out. | {{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|I love you, but you are not serious people.<br>Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading out. | ||
The ''appearance'' of endemic unseriousness may have just been the process of the [[JC]] aging, reaching age-parity with the sorts of people who get to run the world, and realising they were — well, jerks, mainly — but it feels a bit more significant than that. | |||
I know, I know: a smartarse who makes up [[Otto Büchstein|cod Shakespeare]] and bellyaches about the [[I.S.D.A.]] is hardly one to be throwing stones about a lack of gravitas — but nor does he ''ostend'' to be serious. There is a role for someone to be the clown: it just isn’t the same as Prime Minister. | I know, I know: a smartarse who makes up [[Otto Büchstein|cod Shakespeare]] and bellyaches about the [[I.S.D.A.]] is hardly one to be throwing stones about a lack of gravitas — but nor does he ''ostend'' to be serious. There is a role for someone to be the clown: it just isn’t the same as Prime Minister. | ||
You need someone, after all, to blow raspberries and debag those insufficiently serious people that grift their way to the upper echelons of international finance. | You need someone, after all, to blow raspberries and debag those insufficiently serious people that grift their way to the upper echelons of international finance. | ||
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