TOM EATON: Shut up, you colonial beneficiary, and leave Putin and Qatar alone
The gag squads are back, this time to defend the legitimacy of the Fifa World Cup and the impugned honour of Qatar — what about that!
21 November 2022 - 19:40
Millions of years hence, when the hard drive onto which the last human has downloaded its consciousness is found snagged in the space cobwebs of a distant interstellar garden, the octopus that finds it and deciphers it will be amused by one thoroughly human paradox: how the internet gave us all a voice, and how we then used that voice to tell everyone else to shut the hell up.
Of course, another part of being human is the desire not to look stupid, and few things look more stupid than impotently shouting “Shut up!” at someone. Just watch those clips of Dali Mpofu or Bheki Cele and you’ll see what I mean...
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