Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Semester hasn't really started yet, so I have nothing new to report in the way of liberal antics, but I did want to clarify a question that I have gotten a few emails about.
Yes - my fellow Grad students and my instructors for the large part really do think Bush is Hitler. One professor actually has a picture of Bush with the Hitler style mustache photoshopped in.
And they think the parallels will just keep going. One student actually said (this was in the student lounge, and several other students agreed verbally) that if Bush was re-elected, Liberals and Minorities were going to be forced into the gas furnaces just like Hitler did to the Jews. I questioned it this was not just a bit too much and the student looked at me and said "You must watch Fox News. How naive of you. If you don't see what's happening in this country, I will have no pity for you when they do put you in the oven." Everyone else laughed and that was about it.
I think English majors, especially graduate students are basically being raised by an isolated society of zealots known as the Graduate faculty. Very little contact is actually made with the outside world and all common sense is lost by a subtle brainwashing known as cultural studies and post modern literary theory.
Or not. Who knows? But the widespread belief that we are about to have a Nazi America boggles my mind. This is not just a bunch of left leaning students and teachers, this is a group so far left they can't even see reality.
Of course, with Post-modern theory no one can perceive reality at all, so why bother? My reaction is to use Zeno's paradox - we can't truly see reality, but we can get infinitely close.
And I still can't type.
Yes - my fellow Grad students and my instructors for the large part really do think Bush is Hitler. One professor actually has a picture of Bush with the Hitler style mustache photoshopped in.
And they think the parallels will just keep going. One student actually said (this was in the student lounge, and several other students agreed verbally) that if Bush was re-elected, Liberals and Minorities were going to be forced into the gas furnaces just like Hitler did to the Jews. I questioned it this was not just a bit too much and the student looked at me and said "You must watch Fox News. How naive of you. If you don't see what's happening in this country, I will have no pity for you when they do put you in the oven." Everyone else laughed and that was about it.
I think English majors, especially graduate students are basically being raised by an isolated society of zealots known as the Graduate faculty. Very little contact is actually made with the outside world and all common sense is lost by a subtle brainwashing known as cultural studies and post modern literary theory.
Or not. Who knows? But the widespread belief that we are about to have a Nazi America boggles my mind. This is not just a bunch of left leaning students and teachers, this is a group so far left they can't even see reality.
Of course, with Post-modern theory no one can perceive reality at all, so why bother? My reaction is to use Zeno's paradox - we can't truly see reality, but we can get infinitely close.
And I still can't type.
