- on ACADEMIA:
- "It's striking how many devotees of European theory play fastidiously by academic rules which strictly prohibit the original formulation of anything similar as 'big-picturism' with too much thinking and not enough footnotes."
- "We have seen the emergence of a French exception to the academic taboo on overt ethnic slurs, just as there is a long-standing Arab exception in Hollywood.... The situation should be a wakeup call for those of us whose intellectual appetite does not include freedom fries. For like phone taps, or the imperial division of humankind into enemies and flunkies, parochialism does not stop at domestic borders."
- "Among the tenured class, there are many whose dream, while overlapping with Dr. King's, is a bit less lofty: to extend just as much chance to women and people of color as to whites and men to join them within the tiny fellowship of those who get to exploit graduate students--while taking care that the latter don't unionize."
- "The academic establishment’s frequent and none-too-subtle appeal to authority fallacies invoking those sacrosanct decrees called disciplinary consensuses (revocable only by those who issued them), together with a 'soft' to 'hard' scaling of disciplines that flourishes on the vaguest justifications, intermesh to instill firmly into aspiring young minds exactly which abdications of judgment ambition requires."
...the most profoundly subversive essay
currently available on the Internet
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