Tuesday, November 4, 2014

a funny notice

I saw a funny notice on a bulletin board the other day. I reproduce it below.  (Incidentally, I find it very disturbing that at bus stops and elsewhere in the Czech Republic, there are official notices banning the posting of non-approved materials.  Approved materials always include garish and disgusting advertising for crap.  One of the marks of a truly free society is its tolerance for pamphleting and posting in public places by every sort of person.)

A CALL FOR ACTION;
A CALL FOR THE PERMANENT EUTHANASIA OF THE V-RAT-NICE CLASS

Now is the time to recognize that the Vratnice has outlived its usefulness.

This class, with its perennial suspicion and contempt for those on the wrong side of the desk, has no role to play in a democratic society.  Nor should anyone imagine they've been somehow updated by giving them computers and defending them with thick glass.

Current members of the class should be given other jobs, real work which does not allow them to behave contemptuously and disdainfully towards others.

The Special Case of the “Nice” Vratnice:

Then there are those who are so misguided as to imagine themselves kind when they negotiate special privileges with you. 'Well, I shouldn't, but I will do it this once....”

Their kind was clearly diagnosed by Kafka in the opening pages of “The Trial”.

No comments:

Post a Comment