Comments | ahhpeanutbutter: Postmodernism is the Opiate of the Educated Classes

ahhpeanutbutter

Postmodernism is the Opiate of the Educated Classes

Apr 04, 2006 14:03

I’ve been hearing a lot of collective moaning is past few days about going back to school. That’s funny to me since for the most part, I am glad to be back. I could wring my hands about taking more classes at a school I was supposedly done with, but that would be unnecessary. The fact is that every credit I spend at community college will mean one ( Read more... )

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pollydacron April 4 2006, 21:33:19 UTC

was going to respond to your myspace but myspace was being a suck
i like learning.. i like knowing things..
i just don't like busy work, classes that don't teach me anything, and teachers who are dicks\bitches. and combinations of those things that are required for me in order to graduate with a degree..
school and learning are not always the same.
however many of your points are quite valid.

p_n_guin April 5 2006, 01:41:09 UTC

I had the same feelings about post-modernism when I was taking a women's studies class last quarter and the professor was talking about how biological sex doesn't really exist and such, which annoyed the crap out of me, because if it doesn't exist then why the hell do we have a women's studies class??

pollydacron April 5 2006, 03:30:21 UTC

yeah.. i'm all for feminism, but some people take it way out of proportion..
yeah, i don't have a vagina, matt doesn't have a penis, we imagine those things?

ahhpeanutbutter April 5 2006, 05:14:37 UTC

How do you know I don't have a penis? I thought I could keep a secret!

pollydacron April 5 2006, 06:26:24 UTC

umm.. remember that one party... you were pretty wasted, maybe you don't...

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potato_hippo April 5 2006, 04:07:00 UTC

Mat, I went to a conference on autism and one of the speakers talked about how there is a link between vaccines, gestational tracts and the disorder known as aspergers. It was very interesting. You might want to read something on it if you can (well, if you want to that is.) Oh, and how is the application process going?

ahhpeanutbutter April 5 2006, 05:47:39 UTC

The original study that linked autism with MMR vaccines has been widely discredited. You can read about it at http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4743 But the connection between childhood death, blindness, and brain-damage resulting from Measels Mumps and Rubella is well understood, for hundreds of years. My first job was reading to a Liberian man who had lost his eyesight to Measels because he lacked the medical care that parents are now denying their children because of faulty information.
I've filled out my parental information on the UW application, and I'm going to begin my essay sometime soon.