The Alphabet War

The world is "swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/ where ignorant armies clash by night" wrote Matthew Arnold in Dover Beach in 1867. 

That was the year Canada was born. However it was in 1867 England, in 2020 Canada "struggle and flight" seems a pretty wide-ranging war among alphabetical armies who fight with non-civil slogans slashed across walls in CAPITAL LETTERS. 

Ordinary people (you know who we are) are tired of constant confused alarms from BIPOC and LGBQT, tired of being told that ACAB, and that BLM (like all lives; we know). We feel like we're being sloganized to death by the PC with OCD, although we know we'll be labelled with all sorts of "-isms" for pointing it out. (So, best to speak as ANON, if at all.)

We're already tired of COVID, with it's self-isolating work-from-home blending of days into sameness and a sort-of-working, sort-of-alone lifestyle … We can't even keep that TGIF feeling we used to have at the end of the working week. How's the end different from the beginning and middle, now? What's a week, in life lived on  ZOOM and SKYPE?

So we're not in the mood-disorder for warfare via wall-splashing graffiti and text-abbreviation. Texting isn't writing, and slogans aren't thought. Capitalized abbreviations are sub-literate amputations for an ADHD generation.  If I see one more I'll get PTSD.

You might think that arrogant and don't want to hear my plea for peace and whole syllables, but nevertheless that's my final WORD, delivered, of course, as ANON. 

Please don't RSVP.

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