Rendering Unto Caesar: Academic Dysfunction‏

Dec 09, 2013 10:20

One of the pivotal moments in human history occurred when an Italian mathematician published a polemical essay implying that everything known at the time was wrong. It was such a powerful work that it was ruthlessly suppressed by the people most at risk of falling out of favor in the eyes of the populace. Although clergy were clearly caught in ( Read more... )

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dexeron December 10 2013, 03:18:10 UTC
I'm sorry, but I can't follow what this post is about at all. I can't read through the euphemisms and pronouns.

What Italian mathematician? What essay?

What Greek chauvinist? What Macedonian despot? What does their "authority" have to do with the aforementioned Italian?

What Hungarian? What work?

What semantics, and what argument between sociology and psychology?

Who are these homophobic despots? Who are these homosexual liberals?

What rhetoric, and when was it "ratcheted down?"

What professionals disagree on alcohol consumption and whether it is a disease? Which are despots, and which are liberal?

WHAT ACADEMY?

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yes_justice December 10 2013, 08:33:08 UTC
kylinrouge December 10 2013, 10:58:25 UTC
It all makes sense if you take a hit of LSD before reading.

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sophia_sadek December 10 2013, 17:56:44 UTC
A Gnostic Palin? Is that anything like a Buddhist pope?

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yes_justice December 10 2013, 20:58:06 UTC


The literal illiterati dull only to dull!

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ivankon December 10 2013, 11:02:04 UTC
it is just an auto-generated text like those used by spammers

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sophia_sadek December 10 2013, 17:55:17 UTC
It sounds like someone is out of touch with the history of the Western intellect.

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yes_justice December 10 2013, 20:56:16 UTC
The sentence existing inside of a rhyme is only a token that is spoken in time but the meaning of the aching of the toll is just like the weaning of the breaking of a soul.

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htpcl December 11 2013, 07:22:56 UTC
Win!

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yes_justice December 11 2013, 07:36:38 UTC

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