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05 June 2008

against my own regard for reason and rationality

Culled from an email where I was giving Axe undeserved shit:

you haven't dealt much largely with the general public, have you?  like at public meetings where townspeople get up and begin by stipulating "well, I'm not being realistic here, but. . ." and then go on to list a million irrational ponderables for your project that the Township leaders then go on to discuss and then you have to comply with. . .just to get what's legally allowed on your client's property done. . .months later at their expense.  because of the children.

the world doesn't deserve my rationality.  it doesn't deserve my work, or my utility, or my usefulness, or my sweat, or my capacity to care. 

the world can go fuck itself. 

I root for fundamentalist assholes.  at least they're sincere in their illogic and irrationality.

Axe, I apologize, but I meant every word of this. 

Rationality is just braided or straightened irrationality.  The world doesn't make a lick of sense to me, thankfully. 

I concede.       

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I do believe you should consult with Malaclypse the Younger.

No apology required. In case anyone else is reading, this began over a discussion of the historical, cultural and general illiteracy of the students in college today. I happen to think that if you're spouting off about something, you need to have some knowledge of what you speak. My example was, for some ungodly reason, Catholic theology. If you claim to be a Catholic theologian, some familiarity with the Bible and Thomas Aquinas would probably be pretty relevant. I have better examples -- if you are about to have surgery, you'd kind of like to know that the surgeon, the nurses and the anesthesiologist all are reasonably knowledgeable about what they are doing. The need for an example arose from my bitching about a teaching colleague saying that my assignment of Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive to my Management 5000 class was mistaken, that Drucker was irrelevant. All management theory in the western World and now in China and Russia spring from two sources -- Deming and Drucker. Ignoring them to read, oh, The One Minute Manager in graduate school leads to ignorance and stupidity. I chose a bad example. There are many of them; if you're going to be president, it would be a good idea to know where Greece and Turkey are and why they hate each other. Just a thought...

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