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Canceling writers is pretty common nowadays, the latest being an old friend of mine, V.S. Naipul. V.S. won the Nobel Prize for Literature—among many other awards—something very few readable writers have achieved. The Swedish Academy likes to pick obscure writers from places unknown who write unreadable books, but sometimes the great talents of Papa Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, V.S. Naipul, and such stand out and cannot be ignored, hence they are recognized. V.S.’s brother Shiva, also a writer, was a close buddy, and we used to go out and get into trouble together. He died very young after smoking sixty a day while writing. The last time I saw V.S. he came with his wife to a book party of mine in a snooty London gentlemen’s club I belonged to, and he was very, very complimentary about the silly things I write about. V.S. has now been canceled by people whose own talents could fit in one of his toenails, which he cut very short. Such are the joys of today’s intellectual midgets judging intellectual giants.

“V.S. has now been canceled by people whose own talents could fit in one of his toenails, which he cut very short.”

Trinidad-born Naipul has been condemned for his views on Africa—he correctly saw the continent as primitive and hidebound by superstition. I’d say he hit the nail on the head and had the courage to write the truth rather than think it and keep quiet, as the rest of the scribes do. Nobel Prize notwithstanding, V.S. was pilloried by so-called do-gooders after his first wife said some unflattering things about him. This I found very surprising. An ex-wife saying something unflattering about her ex must really be a first.

Never mind. Erasing a writer whose works are eternal is typical of today’s untalented. Cancellation is utterly pointless. Only a moron would follow suit, and morons don’t usually read good books. George Bernard Shaw is now considered a Nazi-lover, and his clever, socially minded books and plays are denigrated by those woke morons who make the rules today. And while I’m at it, one doesn’t look to artists as moral guides, but as artists.

The woke phonies have even included Charles Dickens among their baddies who should be canceled—Dickens of all people, who wrote nonstop in favor of the poor, but it is said he was a tyrant at home. Which I’m sure he was, having seen pictures of his wife. This canceling has to be a bad joke perpetrated by spotlight-craving fabulists who invent horror stories about their betters in order to be in the news. It is as simple as that, dear Takimag readers, so pay absolutely no attention to these lowlifes whose talents can only be appreciated in kindergartens and flophouses.

Now that we have established that people like Papa and V.S. are not to be read, let’s try to be with the in crowd and write woke. It is my first time, so please be kind: The other day here in Gstaad I ran into a birthing person chest-feeding, and I exchanged ideas with that person. Mind you, I reminded that person that gender-oriented correctness should be upheld at all times. I spoke with the inseminated person about the weather and the plight of incarcerated people suffering from involuntary confinement. The birthing person asked me whether I missed sex while under involuntary confinement. I answered with a question, whether she missed sex while inseminated? I fear I offended the birthing person because it left in a huff.

What do you, dear readers, think? This should pass the test with the woke crowd, n’est-ce pas, as they say in the land of 4,000 cheeses? So from now on let us Takimag readers respect the woke and their pronouns. And never, ever offend nonbinary people. And keep in mind that Mummy and Daddy have no right to leave their money to you because you have done nothing to earn it. By the same token, unemployment benefits should also be abolished because people on welfare also have done nothing to earn their keep except sleep all day and watch TV all night. And while I’m at it, flying the Pride flag year-round should be compulsory to all nations.