Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, âI was hanged and survived #soggyrope,â or, â#nosyphilisnochocolate.â Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a dayâs toil for the young Candide. And this is in the best of all possible worlds!
Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, âI was hanged and survived #soggyrope,â or, â#nosyphilisnochocolate.â Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a dayâs toil for the young Candide. And this is in the best of all possible worlds!