I hate telling ppl that I’m into literature and they’re like “oh so what novels have you read recently?” And I have to say “haha, no. I only read Derrida”
Nothing worse than a guy who's convinced himself he has social skills. He is going to constantly give you the most banal observations as advice, when in reality people only like him because he's pathologically agreeable and nonthreatening
The Virgin Steve Pinker: ooo language has to be simple, the idiots wont understand
The Chad Judith Butler: regularly gets called indecipherable, doesn't matter, sold 100s of thousands of copies world wide, doesn't give a fuck, carries on doing it.
Too many academics like to use the excuse that other people simply aren't intelligent enough to understand them. I call bs on that. They are hiding a dearth of coherent ideas behind a thicket of deliberately unintelligible prose.
imo the best aspect of tpot is that you are continually confronted by smart people who believe things you thought only stupid people believed until just now
The best part about talking to your profs is that they will tell you all the drama going down in the community that doesn’t make headlines. Like no that extremely famous prof didn’t step down from his position, he was kicked out for being a complete weirdo freak