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Even more amazing........

Publius — 12/3/2004 2:47:57 PM (archived)

That those who have studied, been immersed, and make their living in a focused subject area know less and understand less about it than you?

Perhaps, your preoccupation is a clearer path to enlightenment than their occupation?

This could be an amazing path to knowledge. Those things we are pre-occupied with--tangenitally or not-need not be studied to be understood. They only need be the focus of our interest at the moment. Wow! I never before dreamed enlightenment was so easy.

I seem to have a recurrent interest in women, I previously thought I would never understand them. Trinity College in Dublin has a specific course in Women's Studies that must be extraneous.

I think I understand the neocon equation. Vote Republican, it's easier than thinking.

Marvelous, bloody marvelous.

Publius

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Survey of college profs' political orientation - p - 12/3/2004 1:40:56 PM
- More concerned about the right-wing take-over of law enforcement and the armed forces. - alcaray - 12/6/2004 10:40:13 PM
- Let's purge the liberals!!!! - Mary Anne - 12/5/2004 3:25:33 PM
  - re: Let's purge the liberals!!!! - Larry J - 12/5/2004 4:51:10 PM
    - I merely give voice to the insinuation from the Right. - Mary Anne - 12/5/2004 6:05:19 PM
      - Foolish exaggeration is a poor technique - Larry J - 12/6/2004 1:57:50 AM
        
        The fact that academia is self-selected seems to escape you too. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 2:09:16 PM
        
        Would you be as complacent... - Larry J - 12/6/2004 4:31:15 PM
        
        Tell it to the Boy Scouts. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:03:13 PM
        
        Couple points about the Boy Scouts - Larry J - 12/6/2004 8:20:19 PM
        
        re: I'll see your couple, and raise you a couple - Mary Anne - 12/7/2004 2:31:53 PM
        
        A clarification - Tom Brosz - 12/7/2004 5:08:26 PM
        
        By this definition... - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 5:33:56 PM
        
        "Foolish exaggeration is a poor technique" (n/t) - Tony - 12/6/2004 6:48:17 PM
        
        I was unaware that criticizing one's philosophy was equivalent to assault. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:02:31 PM
        
        Don't be thick. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 6:21:49 PM
        
        *Can't* be? - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:42:31 PM
      - re: insinuation from the Right. - Tom Brosz - 12/5/2004 8:03:29 PM
        
        Take your conservative academic experiences and apply them to adult life: Welcome to my world. - Mary Anne - 12/5/2004 9:28:20 PM
        
        Welcome to my world. - Tom Brosz - 12/5/2004 9:43:01 PM
        
        They're looking at an assortment of European nations. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 1:11:57 AM
        
        Fine. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 3:57:22 AM
        
        There are lots of nations in Europe. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 2:31:42 PM
        
        So, what nations are on their "short list?" - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 5:06:54 PM
        
        We are only responsible for our own side. - Mary Anne - 12/6/2004 6:20:26 PM
        
        You know them. I don't. - Tom Brosz - 12/6/2004 6:29:10 PM
- Probably smarter and better informed than, say, you. And yours. Huh? (n/t) - Bowser - 12/4/2004 7:12:59 AM
  - probably wrong, but then you're used to that - p - 12/4/2004 4:08:08 PM
- And did you know that seawater is salty? Since when is this news? Since when is it "current events"? It is old hat. True, but very old. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 12/3/2004 2:57:54 PM
- Even more amazing........ - Publius - 12/3/2004 2:47:57 PM
  - ?? What subject are you talking about? This survey included many diverse discplines, not just political science. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 12/3/2004 2:59:20 PM
    - apparently liberal dominance is a tautologoical truth.... - Publius - 12/5/2004 3:40:17 PM

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