39020richdawn There´s a party game called Chinese~
WHISPERS
[IN BRITAIN]
OR TELEPHONE [IN
AMERICA]. You line up,
say, ten people in a row. The first person
whispers something - it must be a story - to the second.
The second whispers the story to the third, the third person to
the fourth, and so on. Finally, when the story reaches the tenth person
she repeats what she has heard to the whole party. Unless the original story
was exceptionally simple & brief, it will have become greatly changed, often in a funny
way. It’s not just the words that change down the line, but important details of the story itself.
Before writing was invented and before scientific archaeology started, word-of-mouth storytelling,
with all its Chinese Whispery distortions, was the only way people learned about history. And it’s terribly unreliable! As each generation of storytellers gives way to the next, the story becomes more and more garbled. Eventually, history - what actually happened - becomes lost in myth and legend. It’s difficult to know whether there ever was a real person behind the legendary Greek hero Achilles, or the fabled beauty Helen whose fact ‘launched a thousand ships’. When the poet Homer finally wrote the
stories down (and we don’t know when that was, even to the nearest century) they’d been
distorted through generations of word-of-mouth retelling. Any reliable truth had dissolved
away. We don’t know who ‘Homer’ was or when & where he lived; whether he was blind,
as legend has it; was one person or many. And we don’t know how his stories originally
began, before they passed through the distorting filter of word-of-mouth retelling! Did
they start as factual accounts & then become garbled? Or did they start as made-
up fiction & get changed in the retelling?
Die Schwänze hoch zum Ficken fest entschlossen?
With the eternal USA-songs full of fucking dicks, Yankee
doodles, dj Trumppussy’s, slavery, freedom to kill & drill, fill mills for more kills?
The Jabotinsky’s & Begins, Kahanes, Stalins, Mao’s, Young Kim Uns, Wilders &
Baudets, Janmaten, Keeshonden, Fortuyns, Van Gogh’s BVD
geitenfuckers & too many of multi-Muhammads madmen?
Pausen, Moffen, Führers, sansculotten, kolonies,
reuzengeuzen, Perfide Evil English,
Spunky Spagnolen, Mussolini’s
botsautobraloperas?!
Asih, man, 79 jaar
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