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Ckok Posted 15 years ago
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Bacchanal of discord and decadence
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Can you please explain in which sense the word bacchanal is used below?
Josh Harris is the creator of the documentary We Live in Public. Back in the day, before 9/11, there were no limits to being public on the internet. "Harris pushed the question to its limit: Just how public do you want to be, people? The effort devolved into a perhaps predictable bacchanal of discord and decadance." Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis. Is it like burst, a bubble (etc.) of discord and decadence here? Thanks.
Can you please explain in which sense the word bacchanal is used below?
Josh Harris is the creator of the documentary We Live in Public. Back in the day, before 9/11, there were no limits to being public on the internet. "Harris pushed the question to its limit: Just how public do you want to be, people? The effort devolved into a perhaps predictable bacchanal of discord and decadance." Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis. Is it like burst, a bubble (etc.) of discord and decadence here? Thanks.
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Hi, bacchanal - literally , a wild, drunken, self-indulgent and usually immoral celebration In your passage, the term is used figuratively. The meaning is that people at that time had no inhibitions or shame or self-control about what they said and showed on the internet. Clive
- Hi, bacchanal - literally , a wild, drunken, self-indulgent and usually immoral celebration In your passage, the term is used figuratively.
- The meaning is that people at that time had no inhibitions or shame or self-control about what they said and showed on the internet.
- Clive
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Hi,
bacchanal - literally, a wild, drunken, self-indulgent and usually immoral celebration
In your passage, the term is used figuratively. The meaning is that people at that time had no inhibitions or shame or self-control about what they said and showed on th
bacchanal - literally, a wild, drunken, self-indulgent and usually immoral celebration
In your passage, the term is used figuratively. The meaning is that people at that time had no inhibitions or shame or self-control about what they said and showed on th
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