Posted on 12/03/2004 12:55:13 PM PST by Ramonan
hey...ask him when I can score some peyote...
Ph.D=Piled Higher and Deeper.
Thank you for the insight...very enlightening.
One of the most important pillars this nation has, is the ability for it's citizens to own their own home and land.
One of the writers termed this, code talk for enriching the wealthy. My God, what an ignorant imbecile.
The echo of this talk is that everything should be owned by the state so that things all things are equal. The Soviet Union proved this unquestionably. Almost everyone was equal, and dirt poor, subject to the whims of the state.
Especially those who teach "philosophy" or some other full of crap subject! They've never lived in a real world. With their balding heads and pony tail(men-well girlie men) and their aging bmw's or vw buses! And most live in faculty housing so what do they know about the real world?
Look up the term "idiot savant."
Yeah, I get to read this kind of rubbish in the Letters section of the U-T every day. O Joy, O Rapture! I did manage to get a letter published in response to a recent Lib "Whine Festival" about the election results, but the U-T doesn't accept letters from the same author for 120 days at a time, so I just read 'em and shake my head at the incredible mix of arrogance and thick-headedness.
The fondest memories I have of college (aside from binge drinking and the ensuing adventures) are the battles I had with my liberal professors. Many of them were remarkably unskilled in debate and possed a shallow knowledge of issues for which they held such strong opinions. There is nothing like making your professor look silly during their lecture in front of a couple hundred people. Although it probably didn't help my grades!
Hey brainiac - you misspelled Biblical.
Philosphy is a great field! The Founding Fathers were philsophers and drew on many others. There is good and bad in every field.
possed = possessed
My Version:
In his column, "Campuses remain Democratic havens," George Will certainly tries hard to explain why faculty members at our prominent universities are overwhelmingly liberal. But as is often the case with Will, he fails to mention the obvious. These people are liberal because they are completely divorced from reality. They know nothing of current labor and social conditions and don't realize that for most people a return to the tired solutions of the 1930's would not be in their interest. Finally, they are persuaded by slogans like "redistribution of the wealth" and "welfare state," which are primarily a cover for the transfer of society's wealth into the pockets of the idle, lazy and unproductive.
One of the Globe's alleged readers wrote this letter as a commentary. A number of people have suggested that the Globe falsifies letters, but I wouldn't know. I certainly know that they have never printed one of my letters.
Professors? Intelligent?
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Do they seem to know a lot about their subject field the way they believe it should be known. Sure. Intelligent. Probably not.
Trying hard to prove the letter writer right?
Philosophers get too used to reading translations of German, which, in the translation process becomes like onject-oriented computer coding. As in "this means what I say it means." And then the terms, which made sense in German, become sort of an English terminology for philosophy. And the same happens with Latin.
Professors are 'intelligent'? LOL Well, there is book smarts, then there is actual intelligence. Anyone can spout the party line, professor. It takes real intelligence to see that the party line doesn't work in real life.
I can visualize a well-intentioned seventh grader writing this. Shy, intelligent, not popular with her peers, a misfit; and totally wrong.
I am not liberal, but am intelligent, thoughtful and well-educated. But I do not by any means see the choice as limited to having to choose between being a liberal or wanting to return to the conditions of the early 20th century. The intellectual disconnect here, even for a "progressive" with an agenda, is breathtaking...
I should have added that these liberal college professors are continually propped up and praised by the students that other liberal professors have indoctrinated into the cause, the MSM, and other liberal educators.
It's amazing that colleges are supposed to foster free thought, but it is actually strangled. Shades of college in the USSR. I wonder if the educators in the USSR were conservative?
"Those who can't teach, teach P.E."
From Alvie Singer (aka Woody Allen) in "Annie Hall"."
And for those who can't teach P.E. there is always a guidance counselor position somewhere.
George Orwell
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