This thread should become the idle chit chat thread now
I'll dig up the casket before the crowd disperses - I thought I heard a slight knocking.I appreciate your efforts to perform CPR on this thread even while everyone is standing back and respectfully lowering their heads with their hats in hand.
catalog and craner both went slightly mad, like hysterical victorian ladies
Well what would a non-academic intellectualism look like?
intellectuals are acceptable as long as they can explain their ideas to joe rogan.Well what would a non-academic intellectualism look like?
Seemingly, the mainstream, however blurrily we define it, does still have at least a kernel of respect for intellectuals? Is it just buried under a prevailing aversion to pretentiousness? To what extent is that aversion justified, and to what extent is the baby thrown out with the bathwater? That is, to what extent does one, by disregarding academic discourse, disregard a genuine intellectual impetus?
people miss the aesthetics of it as much as the content. men talking and smoking cigerettes. no anecdotes. no jokes. maybe a jug of water on a low coffee table