I would appreciate it if you could refer to me as Dr. Wilkes. It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title.
yours &c.
g.
lege mea Vates cantu, normaque leguntur –Albertino Mussato
My name: g.v. wilkes iv, phd
My location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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This be a vanity blog, my brothers and sisters. Vanity, all is vanity. And a lot of combat, criticism, and commentary.
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The views I express here are my own, only my own, solely my own, and I represent no person, no group, and no institution, other than myself, and even then only partially and inconsistently, as my actions, and my intentions, are seldom in perfect accord, and they are subject to constant revision, review, clarification, and correction.-
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Well played, Dr. Wilkes.
If you could refer to me as “Brother,” I would appreciate it. It’s just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title….
Yea, verily, and amen, my brother, as I am fond of aping the egalitarian salutes of our brothers and sisters in religious communities, or parties of the movement left in their ascendancy, e.g. comrade, brother, compatriot, worker, or even citizen, a comradely title redolent of the French Revolution which Popular Front Communists tried to make popular. The only vestige of that that I know of is the ironically titled Citizen Kane, a cautionary tale about a faux-progressive who was anything but comradely in any of his relationships.
The solution of our own backward age is to insist that everyone call us by our first name even as we hand out business cards with every possible title real or imagined scrawled across them.
Here is the very attitude I describe spoofed in the film American Psycho:
And here it would be again, spoofed by some other person: