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Here in the molten core of Bruce T. Halle library students are bursting into flames... but unfortunately the ones who ask dumb questions seem to be coated in asbestos... and are thus flame retardent (a feature that compliments their mental retardation quite nicely).
Reading a damn fine piece of crit for lit 490 about the alleged liberal bias in education and anti-intellectualism. I'll come out and say it right now, I'm anti-intellectual. That's not to say I am against intellectual pursuits. I do however deride those who describe themselves as intellectuals, much in the same way I can't tollerate people who "don't do none-uh-that readin and shit." I also continue to be staunchly anti-fool. Look in contemporary America I see a binary between rabid pundit lovers and the latte sippers. Seems to me people feel they must be either Ann Arbor or Alabama--pure cosmo or total bumpkin. Why not be both? We, and I'm going to take a minute to focus on those I have the greatest write to speak on (White men, working class and even middle class), we need to be Rennaisance men. I remember this stupid fucking bad comedy with Danny Devito from the early nineties that made an amazing fucking point: its ok to be more than one thing. Devito, this professor teaching some dumbshit soldiers, gives this guy a speech and says Leonardo, Raphael... one of the fucking turtles... was a goddamn genius, painted, drew, kept up with the latest scientific knowledge, but was also capable of amazing feats of athleticism. From a standstill, with both feet together, he could jump the height of a man. Devito's character goes on to argue, and I truly believe this, that this duality--scholar/ athlete was the essence of the rennaisance.
I would argue that its the essence of a complete humanity. One must strive to be duplicitous. Appreciate beer and ballgame as much as wine and a symphony. Look, 500 years before we came up with post-structuralism/deconstruction and all of our upity notions about exploding binaries and the like... people were actually living the philosophy. Derrida didn't invent shit, he discovered it.
Reading a damn fine piece of crit for lit 490 about the alleged liberal bias in education and anti-intellectualism. I'll come out and say it right now, I'm anti-intellectual. That's not to say I am against intellectual pursuits. I do however deride those who describe themselves as intellectuals, much in the same way I can't tollerate people who "don't do none-uh-that readin and shit." I also continue to be staunchly anti-fool. Look in contemporary America I see a binary between rabid pundit lovers and the latte sippers. Seems to me people feel they must be either Ann Arbor or Alabama--pure cosmo or total bumpkin. Why not be both? We, and I'm going to take a minute to focus on those I have the greatest write to speak on (White men, working class and even middle class), we need to be Rennaisance men. I remember this stupid fucking bad comedy with Danny Devito from the early nineties that made an amazing fucking point: its ok to be more than one thing. Devito, this professor teaching some dumbshit soldiers, gives this guy a speech and says Leonardo, Raphael... one of the fucking turtles... was a goddamn genius, painted, drew, kept up with the latest scientific knowledge, but was also capable of amazing feats of athleticism. From a standstill, with both feet together, he could jump the height of a man. Devito's character goes on to argue, and I truly believe this, that this duality--scholar/ athlete was the essence of the rennaisance.
I would argue that its the essence of a complete humanity. One must strive to be duplicitous. Appreciate beer and ballgame as much as wine and a symphony. Look, 500 years before we came up with post-structuralism/deconstruction and all of our upity notions about exploding binaries and the like... people were actually living the philosophy. Derrida didn't invent shit, he discovered it.