Leftism
Etymology is a revealing science; words often say more than what they seem to say on the surface. For instance, if you trace "left" back to its origins you get:
c.1205, from Kentish form of O.E. lyft- "weak, foolish" (cf. lyft-adl "lameness, paralysis," E.Fris. luf, Du. dial. loof "weak, worthless")
The left-hand path, that's for sure. And the only time a left-thinking person can get me to agree with them is in the morning (when I'm still half-asleep and the sun is so blinding). You know what they call the morning star-- Lucifer. It also goes a long way towards explaining the modern school & workdays.
Ooooh, Paul Auster knows this, too. I just started his latest book (The Brooklyn Follies) and if I'm not mistaken he's really letting the Americans have it for being so stupid and trusting. Quote, from a character named Flora, the flower child, schizophrenic, born in 1969:
"My father is a dark man, and he lives in a dark wood. He pretends he's a bright man now, but that's only a trick. He's still dark. He'll always be dark--right up to the day he dies."
c.1205, from Kentish form of O.E. lyft- "weak, foolish" (cf. lyft-adl "lameness, paralysis," E.Fris. luf, Du. dial. loof "weak, worthless")
The left-hand path, that's for sure. And the only time a left-thinking person can get me to agree with them is in the morning (when I'm still half-asleep and the sun is so blinding). You know what they call the morning star-- Lucifer. It also goes a long way towards explaining the modern school & workdays.
Ooooh, Paul Auster knows this, too. I just started his latest book (The Brooklyn Follies) and if I'm not mistaken he's really letting the Americans have it for being so stupid and trusting. Quote, from a character named Flora, the flower child, schizophrenic, born in 1969:
"My father is a dark man, and he lives in a dark wood. He pretends he's a bright man now, but that's only a trick. He's still dark. He'll always be dark--right up to the day he dies."