Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Friday, 16 May 2025

"Retarded" -

an out-of-date term
(I remember it from the 1950s)
which aptly describes
the stupefied condition of most humans -

implies a retarder or retardant :
the education system or
normal family upbringing... 

1 comment:

Bearz said...

I much prefer the French sense of 'retarde', as in 'delayed' that I have seen on the electronic boards in the railway stations in France, grand places that they are. To me 'delayed' means that events are measured less by the tight schedules of digital clock time, and are progressed more by obscure blockages in schedules that have to be navigated with patience.