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There's a special kind of stupid that treats the behavior at Yale cocktail parties as generalizable beyond a tiny, miserable sliver of humanity, and it is surely the same kind of stupid that reads Camille Paglia and finds it insightful.
[Gay men] are often arch, imperious commentators with stringent judgments about everything. (At a Yale party, a gay fellow whom I hardly knew muttered waspishly to me about a woman across the room, "That dress does nothing for her!") [...] It is possible that gay men are caught midway between the male and female brains and therefore share the best of both. Talent in the visual arts may be related to a sensory or perceptual openness, detectable in early childhood and perhaps related to autism, where the flux of sensations is cognitively uncontrolled. The gay male brain seems to me permanently switched "on."
-Camille Paglia
One time a guy at a party said something about a woman's dress ergo gay men maybe have lady brains.
Listen to yourself, Stephen? Are you really this stupid?
I don’t get the Saddam part. Seems superfluous. Calling it a Cheesecake Factory conveyed “tacky interchangeable slop.” Saddam was gilding the lily, aka a Cheesecake Factory. This insult was the Saddam’s Cheesecake Factory of presidential architectural criticism!
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I wrote about foie gras, democracy, and meliorism.
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Reading Wittgenstein lectures? Correcting Noah Smith? Walking next to the lake? Could this day get better??
Yes. I put up a new PR on the stacked Turkish getup: 120lb (80 + 40) or 54.5kg! Left and right!
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If I met the Cenobites I would ask for a billion dollars or something instead of "sensation." What the fuck kind of shit do you expect asking for something like that. Dumb ass
Fixed it for yah
• 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong
• 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong
• 1844 AD: Marx is wrong
• 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong
• 1903 AD: Russell is wrong
• 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is right
• 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong
• 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
A Brief History of Philosophy:
• 375 BC: Plato is wrong
• 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong
• 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong
• 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong
• 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong
• 413 AD: Augustine is wrong
• 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong
• 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong
• 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong
• 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong
• 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong
• 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong
• 1739 AD: Hume is wrong
• 1781 AD: Kant is wrong
• 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong
• 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong
• 1844 AD: Marx is wrong
• 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong
• 1903 AD: Russell is wrong
• 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong
• 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong
• 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
The tendency to counterpose "policies and reforms" (always assumed to be insufficient, pernicious, cowardly) to "structural transformation" (never concretely defined but rhetorically bold, courageous, virtuous) is undoubtedly one of the stupidest tics of internet leftists.
I regularly walk past this photograph on my way to the pool at the Ratner Center and every time I see her, I wonder: what did she know??
This is the sort of lie you to tell to someone whose library books you don’t want to return and the sort of lie that someone who asks other people to return their library books for them would believe.
Adding: I'm a reader of Foucault and his critic. I feel no need to reject or embrace his thought in its totality, much less to defame it by fantasizing about his sex life. That common rightwing compulsion is cope and suggests Foucault's insights penetrated deep, indeed.
Ignoring the homophobia, it's interesting that Foucault lives in this clown's head rent free nearly a half century after he died. They keep telling us how nothing Foucault wrote mattered, but their stupidity keeps illustrating what Foucault called the incitement to discourse.
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