J.K. Rowling - not stupid but silent, ignorant, apathetic on major geopolitical,environmental,social Archived Message
Posted by Jim_Carlucci on January 23, 2023, 7:48 am, in reply to "Who is stupider: J.K. Rowling or Nick Cohen?"
..issues. It speaks volumes that she never had any of her Harry Potter characters consider using their immense supernatural powers to conjure up solutions to any of the major problems and threats we face as a species and as would-be unsurveilled, free-speaking, truth-seeking earth-dwellers. For some of us the anarchic, rebellious, broken-down, poverty-stricken and, yes, often gloriously cynical mayhem of a very different school - St.Trinian's - out-classes middle-class, cosy, regimented, jolly British Hogwarts on all counts. Ditto the likes of Enid Blyton, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Tales of Narnia, Mary frikkin' Poppins etc
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