Wm.son<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AWordADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWordADay</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AnuGarg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnuGarg</span></a> </p><p>Today's Word is Podsnap:</p><p>"Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”</p><p>As Podsnap himself adds, “No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country. ... This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as -- as there may happen to be.”</p><p>Podsnap, the walking embodiment of moral myopia in a world so tight no unpleasant facts gets through."</p><p>Indeed! This seems so familiar...</p>