The Useless College Degree

language is a bunch of bullshit anyway, I eagerly await the day where humanity evolves into a big interconnected hive mind so meaning is always clear

i say, get a nursing degree

I've thought about it, parents would laugh at me

i think its important to base life decisions on what your parents would think

language is a bunch of bullshit anyway, I eagerly await the day where humanity evolves into a big interconnected hive mind so meaning is always clear

― dyao, Monday, October 12, 2009 3:16 AM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark

But is meaning EVERY REALLY CLEAR dyao?!?!!!

nursing would be cool imo!

my friend is at nursing school and shes been employed the entire time

no kshighway, there's this coin where both sides are worn out you see

I bet ants never worry about authenticity

Then they're immoral little fuckers.

i think they are amoral, like lawyers

dyao, if your point is to say language is not the center of the universe, then you are 100% OTM and the #1 failing of English departments might be the fact that they continue to propagate that notion for obvious, self-interested, and RONG reasons.

my dealings with literature have made me deeply suspicious of anything and everything, which is probably why I don't sleep too well

dyao, if your point is to say language is not the center of the universe, then you are 100% OTM and the #1 failing of English departments might be the fact that they continue to propagate that notion for obvious, self-interested, and RONG reasons.

― kshighway1, Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude

What, max?

i think he thinks ur bombastic

Yeah, that was a tad bombastic.

Still, point holds.

you switched pretty fast from using the phrase heideggerian phenomenology to acting like a weird reactionary physics prof

I've never read a word of Heidegger but Arendt a movie about him once

Well, I just graduated as an English major, so I think I can speak to the failings of English departments, as much as I love mine. And the fact that a lot of theory--postmodern and otherwise--that's flogged in English departments dismisses or ignores empirical research is a failing and saying so does not make me reactionary.

I read an article awhile ago about two philosophy professors in california who were trying to incorporate MRI scans and stuff into philosophy, which sounded pretty cool, although most philosophy departments seemed pretty embarrassed about it

Teaching Freud as if he alone knew how desire and the human mind worked is reactionary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_philosophy

you see, that seems like something which can give me real answers (and $$$ for sardines)

i moderate a little board called ask dr. freud and i think he alone knows everything

Can he tell dyao how to get money for sardines?

dyao go to nursing school

I probably will after I burn out of some other graduate program first

Well, I just graduated as an English major, so I think I can speak to the failings of English departments, as much as I love mine. And the fact that a lot of theory--postmodern and otherwise--that's flogged in English departments dismisses or ignores empirical research is a failing and saying so does not make me reactionary.

― kshighway1, Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude u r actin like a crazy person with all this talk

I can say though that I'm well on my way to becoming a creepy high school English teacher

How am I wrong max?

wait 'empirical research' huh

Do you think someone like, say, Paul Churchland would take, "But Freud said it!" as a legitimate counterargument to any of his theories?

do you think any english professor would actually say that as a legitimate counterargument to any of his theories??

u are setting up hell of straw men

that's not how any of literary theory works is it? i hope

also empiricism is for nerds and english people so

No, but that wasn't my point. My point is that English professors treat Freud or Lacan as THE authority on everything epistemological. Maybe you had a different experience in college than I did, but as far as I can see it the only "psychology" that's accepted in English classrooms is psychoanalysis.

bro

stop saying "english professors do this"

No.

this is why none of you have jobs

Hahahahhaahaaaa

where did u get ur degree from, bad faith arguing university?

max, you haven't furnished me with any counterargument here. How did *your* professors treat psychoanalysis?

with varying degrees of agreement and skepticism?

OK, so you had a different experience than I did. I should've qualified what I said.

lolololol

ian, what do you think about Freud?