I'll never forget the time I drove 2.5 hours to attend a closed door poetry lecture at Notre Dame where a philosophy professor showed up and trainwrecked the discussion for all the lit + religion scholars there.
At some point the philosophy prof was asked to leave lol he was so socially unaware.
That is true about a lot of other areas of life, like cryptotrader, viz Sam Bankman Fried's opinion of Shakespeare. The assembly line syndrome - spending your life putting one particular screw in a gizmo - is, unfortunately, what a lot of education is about.
Yeah, that's why I increasingly think I really should have gone into academia, because that's me in a nutshell, but since I exist out here in the real world, people expect me to have basic competency in like, more than two things? Isn't that illegal?
Cute, but simply untrue. I love social media because there are no quantifiers. You could say "so dumb at many other aspects of life" but who would bother to read that?
The issue I had as IT support for the maths department was the PRIDE too many had in not being able to e.g. read their emails. It just wasn't impressive or funny. Also frequently I didn't quite buy it more than as an act.
One time I traveled, I didn’t check if I had selected the right airport till I got to the transiting airport. It was while I was waiting for my next flight that I realized how unsure I was if I was gonna land at the place I intended. That town has 3 airports.
“the axiom ‘two men enter, one man leaves’ when examined via the Bakhtinian lens of the *carnivalesque* presents a paradoxical conundrum which can only be resolved through direct materialism (vis-a-vis Engels), this essay will
"Being educated in one area does not make you immune to ignorance in others" is a thing I wish we strangled into all higher education students from day one
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At some point the philosophy prof was asked to leave lol he was so socially unaware.
This explains a lot
“the axiom ‘two men enter, one man leaves’ when examined via the Bakhtinian lens of the *carnivalesque* presents a paradoxical conundrum which can only be resolved through direct materialism (vis-a-vis Engels), this essay will