Pranksters or Heroes?
Scammers, pranksters, or heroes?
What do you think? I think heroes.
"However, what are broadly known as “grievance studies” (where grievances are attributed to a collective and a political solution is prefabricated) seemed to me a postmodernist trick."
Thus, I concurred with philosopher Roger Scruton that they are fake subjects “constructed around an ideology” for “the pursuit of political conformity.”
"Academe’s Snowdens submitted 20 papers, ever more nonsensical, had 7 acceptances and 7 in review (revise and resubmit typically leads to acceptance) at the top journals in the hallowed field of grievance studies. Some of the fictitious authors even got invited to “peer review” others. How come? Because they submitted papers with inferences no more outlandish than what’s already published; indeed, they mimicked what was already out there."
What do you think? I think heroes.
"However, what are broadly known as “grievance studies” (where grievances are attributed to a collective and a political solution is prefabricated) seemed to me a postmodernist trick."
Thus, I concurred with philosopher Roger Scruton that they are fake subjects “constructed around an ideology” for “the pursuit of political conformity.”
"Academe’s Snowdens submitted 20 papers, ever more nonsensical, had 7 acceptances and 7 in review (revise and resubmit typically leads to acceptance) at the top journals in the hallowed field of grievance studies. Some of the fictitious authors even got invited to “peer review” others. How come? Because they submitted papers with inferences no more outlandish than what’s already published; indeed, they mimicked what was already out there."
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Why are these “studies” still able to charge so much money for fraud and sedition?
I particularly liked the terms-
latent gender neutrality, transhysteria, homohysteria, metasexual violence, and positionality.
The new expressions are not so much useful in themselves as they are examples in how to torture language to sound erudite.
"So you ask … can we not just de-fund grievance studies to stop this nonsense?"
I did not see this point answered, what with my eyes under water, but my answer is no.
Stupidity, nonsense, and fraud are deep seated in human nature, perhaps there are some evolutionary advantages. But, stopping the money, at least that part from government, will reduce it.
four men who watched (finally, the statistically significant) 2,328 hours of hardcore pornography over the course of one year.
Over 11 hours a week, a serious challenge for those suffering from male-competitivity. Could this be adapted into an Olympic sport?
More than 1984 I am reminded of The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse.