ha ha ha... GREAT. As someone who got a degree in English literature and actually taught this for awhile...I am used to seeing sentences like this. Various phrases like HERMANUETICS... post modern, etc etc linger vaguely in my mind. On the positive side I read a lot of the best in classic and modern literature. I still love books. Joseph Conrad, Dickens, Trollop, jane Austin etc. I really felt "modern lit crit" was a journey into nothingness. Like James Joyce. I liked The Dubliners....his other books were a joke for pompous English professors to "dissect"....as if they actually meant anything. I suppose many did present impenetrable thesis on these indecipherable texts.
But Oh no! I am revealing my profound ignorance. They are actually great works...if only I could make out what they meant.
I dropped out of a PhD. program 30 years ago after realizing what self-indulgent drivel it encouraged and rewarded. This article brings back some cringe-worthy memories. And it's good for a laugh too.
I have been an advocate for capital punishment for these folks, John Leake. Some in government use them, and pay them, to provide "studies" to support their ridiculous ideological fantasies. My brother, who was seduced by the Covid propaganda, has not spoken to me since I suggested that he was an intellectual fraud and an academic midget. I admit they were harsh words... but they were true. The world has had it's fill of these posers.
I've re read your post and my reply to it and now I regret my snarky reply. "...it still hurts to think about it" made me sad you and your brother have lost such an important relationship. Siblings are a gift from our parents and from our Creator and generally no one knows us quite the same way as brothers/sisters do. There is still time and I hope you find a way.
I approached the brink quite a few times with my younger sister with whom I have always been very close. And basically I had long since given up on any meaningful contact with my older brother so I let geography and his moving into semi dimentia to keep that relationship limited to pleasant holiday greetings. My older sister and I are of like mind and together we have struggled to maintain the (loving part of the ) relationship with our younger sister by avoiding any discussion of covid or political matters. It's hard (very hard) but worth it.
There does seem to be a strong spiritual aspect to the destruction of the family brought on by the horrors of the last two decades. The evil forces acting on each of us were and still are epic. In the quiet of your heart, no matter the harsh words, love really can overcome the divide - even if you put it out there and get no reply. I have your name and will pray specifically for you and your brother with trust in God that He will heal your hearts....
Thank you KFH for your grace. You need not apologize though, the comment I made to my brother was funny, and true, and I liked your response. Nevertheless, I greatly appreciate your kindness, and your willingness to pray for me and my sad dilemma. Please don't have regrets... your keen sense of humor made my day. God bless you for your kindness. Thanks again.
An exhaustive literature review shows that the study of the architectural synthesis process to generate multiple feminist glaciology frameworks, with the coprocesses of criteria-based critical selection of a specific feminist glaciology framework that best optimizes knowledge generation for a specific application (glacier) and implementation, logistics, and selection of females to man the framework, heretofore has been inadequately studied by conceptual females, leading to a disparity in understanding of the true benefits to climate change mitigation that are possible from well executed processes and coprocesses yielding safe and effective feminist glaciology framework deployment.
Recalling your previous post, “America Last:…”. After reading this, I don’t think Russia is what really threatens America, or western society in general.
Modern medical treatises are abstract and fail to lead to any real solutions! With the worst health statistics in the world, anything the medical proclaims...i would do the opposite.
Yes! never ingest their poisonous remedies expressly designed to change you in many ways....including your genome....BUT ESPECIALLY DO NOT INJECT THEM for they CAN and PROBABLY WILL
delete your ability to digest common food items,
eliminate large portions of your brain.
make you sterile--unable to conceive children
or to carry them to term.
you will have deteriorating eye sight, hearing and smell.
The world today has turned from the Truth...and those neurotic, clue-less psychopaths who are running the world will have no place to spend all their money, because there will be no world left.
sorry, I didn't make that more clear .The first two papers were spoofs. Unlike Sokal, Boghossian, and Lindsay, the authors of the “Glaciers” paper did NOT submit the paper to spoof the journal and the discipline. It was a sincere submission.
This is astounding. The glaciers paper was serious? This reconfirms why I seldom read fiction - because the real stuff is so much weirder than what anyone can make up.
Was she a white progressive liberal woman?
Of course, since ice and snow are white and progressing. Liberally and womanly.
I will never be able to look at the ice in my whisky the same way again. Lost innocence.
And so unfair!
I'm taking umbridge (spelling grrgh...) with the tropish (spelling grrgh...) use of ice related to the female construct (brrrrrr...)
Do you need to ask?
I just wanted to make sure it was a good start.
I hope so.
More likely a transgender feminist, progressive, white whatever.
Heteronormative glaciers are boring. Everybody knows that!
when neutered glaciers melt so there you have it
ha ha ha... GREAT. As someone who got a degree in English literature and actually taught this for awhile...I am used to seeing sentences like this. Various phrases like HERMANUETICS... post modern, etc etc linger vaguely in my mind. On the positive side I read a lot of the best in classic and modern literature. I still love books. Joseph Conrad, Dickens, Trollop, jane Austin etc. I really felt "modern lit crit" was a journey into nothingness. Like James Joyce. I liked The Dubliners....his other books were a joke for pompous English professors to "dissect"....as if they actually meant anything. I suppose many did present impenetrable thesis on these indecipherable texts.
But Oh no! I am revealing my profound ignorance. They are actually great works...if only I could make out what they meant.
I dropped out of a PhD. program 30 years ago after realizing what self-indulgent drivel it encouraged and rewarded. This article brings back some cringe-worthy memories. And it's good for a laugh too.
I have been an advocate for capital punishment for these folks, John Leake. Some in government use them, and pay them, to provide "studies" to support their ridiculous ideological fantasies. My brother, who was seduced by the Covid propaganda, has not spoken to me since I suggested that he was an intellectual fraud and an academic midget. I admit they were harsh words... but they were true. The world has had it's fill of these posers.
love the academic midget thing
Thanks KFH, it still hurts to think about it.
I've re read your post and my reply to it and now I regret my snarky reply. "...it still hurts to think about it" made me sad you and your brother have lost such an important relationship. Siblings are a gift from our parents and from our Creator and generally no one knows us quite the same way as brothers/sisters do. There is still time and I hope you find a way.
I approached the brink quite a few times with my younger sister with whom I have always been very close. And basically I had long since given up on any meaningful contact with my older brother so I let geography and his moving into semi dimentia to keep that relationship limited to pleasant holiday greetings. My older sister and I are of like mind and together we have struggled to maintain the (loving part of the ) relationship with our younger sister by avoiding any discussion of covid or political matters. It's hard (very hard) but worth it.
There does seem to be a strong spiritual aspect to the destruction of the family brought on by the horrors of the last two decades. The evil forces acting on each of us were and still are epic. In the quiet of your heart, no matter the harsh words, love really can overcome the divide - even if you put it out there and get no reply. I have your name and will pray specifically for you and your brother with trust in God that He will heal your hearts....
Thank you KFH for your grace. You need not apologize though, the comment I made to my brother was funny, and true, and I liked your response. Nevertheless, I greatly appreciate your kindness, and your willingness to pray for me and my sad dilemma. Please don't have regrets... your keen sense of humor made my day. God bless you for your kindness. Thanks again.
I delivered such critiques to relatives and friends as well... the current quiet is quite pleasant.
Silence is the collateral reward for speaking the truth, isn't it? Enjoy... you've earned some peace and quiet. Thanks for being in the fight.
An exhaustive literature review shows that the study of the architectural synthesis process to generate multiple feminist glaciology frameworks, with the coprocesses of criteria-based critical selection of a specific feminist glaciology framework that best optimizes knowledge generation for a specific application (glacier) and implementation, logistics, and selection of females to man the framework, heretofore has been inadequately studied by conceptual females, leading to a disparity in understanding of the true benefits to climate change mitigation that are possible from well executed processes and coprocesses yielding safe and effective feminist glaciology framework deployment.
Well done!!!
totally
Recalling your previous post, “America Last:…”. After reading this, I don’t think Russia is what really threatens America, or western society in general.
Modern medical treatises are abstract and fail to lead to any real solutions! With the worst health statistics in the world, anything the medical proclaims...i would do the opposite.
Yes! never ingest their poisonous remedies expressly designed to change you in many ways....including your genome....BUT ESPECIALLY DO NOT INJECT THEM for they CAN and PROBABLY WILL
delete your ability to digest common food items,
eliminate large portions of your brain.
make you sterile--unable to conceive children
or to carry them to term.
you will have deteriorating eye sight, hearing and smell.
And the designers of these wondrous products
will also change your LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
so they get all your stuff. perfect.
The world today has turned from the Truth...and those neurotic, clue-less psychopaths who are running the world will have no place to spend all their money, because there will be no world left.
Hilarious!!
The most entertaining was “Dog Park Rape Culture”
They were accepted & published as serious submissions.
These latter two articles have to be satirical, but I am not completely sure -John, are you saying these 2 were actually "serious" submissions?
sorry, I didn't make that more clear .The first two papers were spoofs. Unlike Sokal, Boghossian, and Lindsay, the authors of the “Glaciers” paper did NOT submit the paper to spoof the journal and the discipline. It was a sincere submission.
oh dear
This is astounding. The glaciers paper was serious? This reconfirms why I seldom read fiction - because the real stuff is so much weirder than what anyone can make up.
Now
Arrest Lisa Monaco
Sadly, many once scientific journals have lowered their standards to gain monetary value, thus becoming pseudoscience journals.
Your post prompted me to look up the Ig Nobels, which I had not done for a while. There is the home of apparently serious papers that are, well, ...
Now who else agrees that the plural of penis should be penii?
What about submitting a paper on the proposal?