Sorry, I should've written the acronym out to start with.
Reminiscent of that gal you were talking about who thinks mentioning her weak points is equivalent to actually dealing with her weak points. This one has extra FAIL and a cherry on top, though, because she knows her hypothesis is weak and won't even put it out to the smart kids for vetting. A good hypothesis should stand up to snark, don't you think?
To me, much of Academe is a lot of smart and semi-smart people jacking off smaller and smaller butterflies to win acclaim from smaller and smaller populations of other people who are preoccupied with jacking off butterflies. Or counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin, if you prefer. The whole environment invites and honors poseurs and bullshit artists, IMO. Okay if that's what floats your boat, but me, I just don't see the point. Life's too fucking short.
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Date: 23 May 2010 04:00 pm (UTC)Reminiscent of that gal you were talking about who thinks mentioning her weak points is equivalent to actually dealing with her weak points. This one has extra FAIL and a cherry on top, though, because she knows her hypothesis is weak and won't even put it out to the smart kids for vetting. A good hypothesis should stand up to snark, don't you think?
To me, much of Academe is a lot of smart and semi-smart people jacking off smaller and smaller butterflies to win acclaim from smaller and smaller populations of other people who are preoccupied with jacking off butterflies. Or counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin, if you prefer. The whole environment invites and honors poseurs and bullshit artists, IMO. Okay if that's what floats your boat, but me, I just don't see the point. Life's too fucking short.
Yurgh. :P