XPost: alt.folklore.computers, alt.unix.geeks   
   From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 2025-12-25, c186282  wrote:   
   >    "Intellectuals" generally love subjects with   
   >    a zillion potential fine points they can argue   
   >    for eternity. Does not matter if the subject   
   >    is "important" or even particularly real. Some   
   >    people like chess, 'intellectuals' love the   
   >    arguments, it's their favorite game.   
   >   
   >    Unfortunately they sometimes SOUND significant   
   >    and profound - and horrible "-isms" are born.   
      
   It is true that academics like to find trivial little edges   
   to invent controversy about, because that is a precondition for   
   writing a paper that can get published in a journal that nobody   
   reads, which again is a precondition of staying employed in   
   a tenure track position.   
      
   It is equally true that right-wing think tanks are even more   
   adept at creating superficial bullshit that SOUNDS sorta   
   common-sense until you think about it for a few seconds.   
      
   --   
   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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