The Waste Land A Biography of a Poem

there's a great book wasteland about um Ezra Pound yeah and T.S. Eliot that came out recently as a biography of the poem the wasteland and you just saw Ezra Pound's mind deteriorating with like not syphilis but anti-semitic conspiracy theories it is really interesting like the way i was talking to someone about this recently i was saying that anti-semitism may be the oldest virus yeah like and it's this thing that's in i mean it infects the Romans different emperors at different times different leaders at different times and and then yeah these different tropes are different like the elders is the protocol not designed what's it called uh it's not that old right no it and it's like Russian propaganda just this thing this horrible thing yeah that someone puts out in the world and then it can't be eradicated and and you can be immunized against it with information and understanding but it's just going around effect but if you lack the firewalls for it it can you know my metaphors are getting very mixed here but if you lack the different you know something it can go big or small and yeah there's there these certain viruses and i've watched it i've watched it happen with people i know even people are fans of mine where it's like you can kind of see it like you know okay you know like you fall up on instagram and then it's like oh i haven't seen a picture they're spousing a while and then then it's like announcing they're separated and then announcing that you kind of sensed you're like oh you kind of keep this mental tab like you know where they are in that transition right and you can kind of go okay they just retweeted something from Elon Musk and then you know now they're talking about trans women in sports and you you can kind of watch this it's like this evolution you know the the metaphor they use is about taking the red pill but it's actually not a thing and you get it you don't actually on that there's this latency period where it's kind of working on you and you don't understand it and maybe it was escapeable maybe it wasn't but i'm very fascinated with the way that yeah these kind of idea viruses get into a person and how they how they change