Posts by recordari
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Emma Hart,
We need another word for a "troll" who actually believes what they're saying.
Snape? That's my Harry Potter education talking. Defence against the dark arts.
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I'm glad others came in here, as I wrote a post this morning and then lost the will to give. You've convinced me that the world needs more philosophers, and that one day I'll finish my double major in Philosophy, and then maybe a Masters. Where should I send the invoice?
We're not 'defensive'. We actually think you're wrong.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Neil Morrison,
I didn’t find myself quoting the original text of the Iliad in my subsequent IT career.
You mean you don’t know how to setup the Iliad unofficial toolchain? I’m disappointed.
ETA: Reply fail. Quote within a quote.
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Many of them are broken going into first year. It’s a subset of the type attracted to the discipline: intellectually brilliant, arrogant, utterly incapable of interacting with other humans.
Just catching up. Not sure how to put this as eruditely as others have. WTF?
[Secretly triumphant that we are back to discussing novels!]
I truly madly deeply need to read a book right now.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
A strong focus on arts in secondary school and access to public libraries is going to do a lot more for the intellectual dynamism of the whole country across classes than subsidising the children of the privileged to study Roland Barthes.
Are you sure you're not just baiting now?
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Jolisa,
What I mean is, we can benefit from any given intellectual conversation (science, arts, whatever) without knowing the names or carrying all the footnotes in our head all the time.
Does EndNote have an iPhone app? We could at least carry it in our pocket then.
We will certainly not have many, if any, live philosophers of note if we stop them from studying it at all. That's like intellectual eugenics. Too dumb to truck.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to giovanni tiso,
valuable offshoots
My degree in political ideology tells me this is valuable chortle material.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
...is a sum of money that don't go into health and welfare, or into training doctors, engineers, research scientists (cough) etc.
Bingo. The chestnuts aren't falling far from the tree today.
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I'm still not sure we're there. If the end game is the negation of humanities study for the sake of it, rather than as a basis for a professional career, then isn't that just the solipsists argument as suggested above?
If your study plan has a tangible financial return to 'me' as a taxpayer in the foreseeable future, then carry on. Otherwise go to the library, you burden to society who is wasting our meagre resources.
Even from my slightly right of centre stand point, this seems like extremism.
Historians play a role in the national conversation in ways that modern literary critics, art-historians, philosophers etc generally don't, for reasons I don't really understand.
That much is entirely clear, as they so categorically do, for reasons you may wish to look into.
ETA: Snap, crackle, pop.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Megan Wegan,
It’s like a bollocks millefeuille.
That is indeed a mellifluous phrase. [redacted]
There wasn't enough room in the innuendo almanac for that one.