behold! the chomskybot!
fyi--doesnt link anywhere
Works OK for me, and it's pretty funny, but…
It seems you can be clever, and anti-intellectual, at the same time. In fact, that's what makes amerika great. I've pointed out elsewhere that people like to lampoon specialized vocabularies. It's true they're subject to abuse (or, more often, incompetent usage) but they are often necessary in order to express things that don't otherwise get said. I was in college at the time when Structuralism and Post-Structuralism were taking over academia, and I've seen both sides of the coin. That era was particularly problematic because much of the material was coming from Europe in translation. I saw people intimidated to the point of tears by fancy art-critical talk, but I also had my horizons expanded by the same material, after putting in enough effort to understand it. Or maybe I should say that I was initiated through such language, leading to changes in my relationship to the World. In any religion or science special fancy talk is always used as a portal to the Mysteries.
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- dave 6-07-2000 11:13 pm
fyi--doesnt link anywhere
- Skinny 6-13-2000 1:28 pm [add a comment]
works for me
- dave 6-13-2000 6:08 pm [add a comment]
Works OK for me, and it's pretty funny, but…
It seems you can be clever, and anti-intellectual, at the same time. In fact, that's what makes amerika great. I've pointed out elsewhere that people like to lampoon specialized vocabularies. It's true they're subject to abuse (or, more often, incompetent usage) but they are often necessary in order to express things that don't otherwise get said. I was in college at the time when Structuralism and Post-Structuralism were taking over academia, and I've seen both sides of the coin. That era was particularly problematic because much of the material was coming from Europe in translation. I saw people intimidated to the point of tears by fancy art-critical talk, but I also had my horizons expanded by the same material, after putting in enough effort to understand it. Or maybe I should say that I was initiated through such language, leading to changes in my relationship to the World. In any religion or science special fancy talk is always used as a portal to the Mysteries.
- alex 6-13-2000 3:08 pm [add a comment]
chomp chomp chomp
- dave 6-16-2000 7:30 pm [add a comment]
Don't eat with your mouth open.
(warning, aphorism under construction: People who think with their minds closed shouldn't talk with their mouths open.(does not apply to present company, of course.))
- alex 6-16-2000 8:57 pm [add a comment]
you have a present company? id like one gift horse, please. and a stability to keep it in. in exchange you can have a bunch of horseshit or a modicum of horse sense. you decide.
- dave 6-16-2000 10:11 pm [add a comment]
I'm looking for Trojan Horse-sense.
- alex 6-16-2000 10:35 pm [add a comment]
i think the heat (or is it the humidity?) is making me andalusianal.
- dave 6-16-2000 10:45 pm [add a comment]
Well it's certainly not the humility. But this is surreal; I thought they only had chains in Andalusia.
- alex 6-17-2000 12:17 am [add a comment]