[extropy-chat] Fw: Deconstruction deconstructed....

[Harvey Newstrom]

Jef Allbright wrote,
> Stephen Karlsgodt wrote:
> > <http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/decon.html >

I would fire any engineer that wrote this article.  He makes fun of things
he doesn't understand and assumes that only his own field of endeavor is
worthwhile while other people's knowledge is fake.  He sounds more like the
pointy-haired boss in Dilbert rather than a real engineer.  

His ill-preparedness for the conference is a failing on his part, not the
other conference attendees.  His lack of understanding of even the basic
jargon of other speakers shows his illiteracy, not the illegitimacy of other
fields of study.  His approach to ridicule and belittle the others, even
when he couldn't understand what they were saying.

If you want me to deconstruct this "Deconstructing Deconstructionism", I
would question the authors racist motives for saying things like "you get
points for being French", and his homophobia of selecting homophobia as a
topic to make fun of, and his dislike of academia in general as a
sour-grapes attempt to dismiss what he couldn't understand.  As near as I
can tell, this engineer totally failed to prepare for the conference, be
effective at the conference, or even understand what was being discussed at
the conference.  His response was to make fun of the conference, dismiss it
as all useless anyway, and try to explain why his ignorance is superior to
anybody else's knowledge that he didn't understand.

This was really pathetic.

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