It's a cheese. And that picture's the villain from Biker Mice from Mars, an alien called Limburger.
unbroken, eyes on the page focus for 20 minutes? Or just a general reading session that lasts longer than 20 minutes. The former does seem inconceivable to me.Corpsey and Barty were asking me if I could read for over 20 minutes at a stretch. They couldn't conceive of it
Its a miracle I ever picked up a book after crawling out the classroom. As has been said in this thread, the interest is seemingly veering away from genuine edification. In fact, the system (Big Other is an interesting way to put it - I'm really not familiar with Lacan, if that is Lacan) could probably benefit more from a masses that is disinterested in research, no?School pretty much made me hate almost everything I know spend most of my free time doing. I could be a real big brain right now if it didnt take me years getting over that school ingrained adversity to reading
I can only do it when my computer's off. If I lie in bed reading, I can read for hours. If I read at the computer, I can barely manage a page before turning back to the internet.Corpsey and Barty were asking me if I could read for over 20 minutes at a stretch. They couldn't conceive of it
Its a miracle I ever picked up a book after crawling out the classroom. As has been said in this thread, the interest is seemingly veering away from genuine edification. In fact, the system (Big Other is an interesting way to put it - I'm really not familiar with Lacan, if that is Lacan) could probably benefit more from a masses that is disinterested in research, no?
Apparently this is a big problem in universities and private institutions re: exam results, degrees etc. People feel they've done their bit in paying for it and it's now on the institution to just hand them top marks."Some students want Nietzsche in the same way that they want a hamburger; they fail to grasp - and the logic of the consumer system encourages this misapprehension - that the indigestibility, the difficulty is Nietzsche."
I read a negative review of Capitalist Realism which just said too many of the examples and figures cited were men and Ursula Le Guin was too obvious a woman to cite, so the book wasn't for them...leftist in-fighting.
Yeah, I've only begun considering "intellectual gymnastics" as a distractive control tactic. Suck the more promising minds into discourse that only seems more and more alien as it gets elaborated? Even as I say this, I believe in all the jargon I fling around here. Do you think there are a lot of scholars/academics who traffic through all this stuff without believing in it? Or ,at least, without making an effort to render it more accessible?Education is slippery. I just read Mumbo Jumbo and theres a conspiratorial plot in there that says the civil rights movement was intentionally sabotaged by an evangelical christian group that let black people into universities to get caught up in leftist in-fighting. Fiction, but satire.
There's an emerging research culture too, conspiracy stuff is becoming mainstream, at least among my greater social sphere. Look into the wayfair stuff. The content creators pushing it are doing quite a bit of thorough 'research.' If your counter-cultural, but not handsome, erudite scholars like us in here I imagine its pretty convincing.
Its hard to say whether a public completely uninterested in research would be easier to control as they might be more in tune with how miserable they are and not tripping over themselves in intellectual gymnastics.
I read a negative review of Capitalist Realism which just said too many of the examples and figures cited were men and Ursula Le Guin was too obvious a woman to cite, so the book wasn't for them...