Today’s Incantation: A Satirical Comment for the Times*

April 24, 2023
Hallowed Be Thy Name     The Holy Father The Institution[i] (The Powers that Be)     The Holy Son Secured Employment (Labor, Work, Career)     The Holy Spirit The ethos, sorry, hauntings[ii] of the Figurehead (The Leader, CEO, President, etc., in the filter of ‘public relations’)     Forgive us our daily sins: […]

Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

 

The Holy Father

The Institution[i]

(The Powers that Be)

 

 

The Holy Son

Secured Employment

(Labor, Work, Career)

 

 

The Holy Spirit

The ethos, sorry, hauntings[ii] of the Figurehead

(The Leader, CEO, President, etc., in the filter of ‘public relations’)

 

 

Forgive us our daily sins:

 

 

  • critical thinking
  • critical semantics
  • critical theory

 

 

May we never question your wisdom, sorry, mysteriousness.

 

 

*****

 

 

NOTATIONS

 

 

* An incantation, a spell, a charm, an enchantment or a bewitchery, is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. These days one has to make clear when one is writing satirically, or else it will be taken as ‘gospel’.

 

 

[i] Humanly devised structures of rules and norms that shape and constrain individual behaviour.

[ii] The qualities (such as sadness or beauty) that linger in the memory, not easily forgotten; a haunting melody or haunting images.

 

 

Featured Image: Highway Signpost with Governance wording. Illustration 36615338 / Institutions © Mindscanner | Dreamstime.com

 

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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