Just a thoughtsilentjackSeptember 1 2006, 19:29:54 UTC
"oops. sorry, universities, didn't mean to prod your elitism"
You're part of the system. Where are you now? To where are you applying? What are you wishing to study? The ultimate paradox here, of course, is that the "intellectual" automatically qualifies -- whether s/he self-identifies as such -- as an elitist by virtue of possessing some abstract or tangible commodity at the expense of the lowest echelons of society, gained through some meritocracy, documented or not, graded or not, gradated or not, allowing some sort of specific advantage to be developed, fostered, made public, and used in order to critique, discuss the future of, justify the existence of, refute the purpose of, or otherwise prommulgate that same meritocratic system.
If humanity is its own god and its own cancer upon the face of the earth, meritocratic elitist intellectualism is the cancerous serpent that eats its own tail but gains girth with every vicious-circle pass.
Re: Just a thoughtpoorernieSeptember 1 2006, 19:53:45 UTC
that thought is what I think, but I can't nearly communicate it as well as you can. so instead I go the absurdist mass-appeal route. hence my simple sentence structure, and you know I can write better than this sounds
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You're part of the system. Where are you now? To where are you applying? What are you wishing to study? The ultimate paradox here, of course, is that the "intellectual" automatically qualifies -- whether s/he self-identifies as such -- as an elitist by virtue of possessing some abstract or tangible commodity at the expense of the lowest echelons of society, gained through some meritocracy, documented or not, graded or not, gradated or not, allowing some sort of specific advantage to be developed, fostered, made public, and used in order to critique, discuss the future of, justify the existence of, refute the purpose of, or otherwise prommulgate that same meritocratic system.
If humanity is its own god and its own cancer upon the face of the earth, meritocratic elitist intellectualism is the cancerous serpent that eats its own tail but gains girth with every vicious-circle pass.
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