[TheForge] back to school...(OT, was stoopid question, about academia, more beer-chatter)

[Kenny O.]

Justin Fellenz wrote:

> I
>thought the university was a place for free thought but I discovered
>it's a place where ideas are reproduced, not created. You have to know
>the right thing to say and the right person to quote and if you don't
>you're not just wrong, you're bad. I was bad a lot--I knew the stuff
>but argued anyway, which really ticked em off. The spread of
>postmodernism throughout humanities departments is an emblem of the
>death of those disciplines...any value it could bring gets eclipsed by
>the fact that it's a way to foster endless meaningless (sorry, little
>joke there) discussions that keep people employed--and to support
>"theories" that elevate unresolved personal issues to the level of
>academic discourse, which can then be forced down the throats of grad
>students. The ones who swallow are the ones who carry on to do it to
>their students later. Only the very strong can spit it back up and
>still make a place for themselves in the pit.
>
BRAVO

Going to an Institution of Higher Learning as an adult, or as a person 
who has lived a
somewhat Proletariat existence, Has led me away from the gray area of 
thought.
I have only found frustration in Letters.
I now devote my school time to the black and white of it all. Mathematics.
There doesn't seem to be much opinion about what the "correct answer is" 
in this forum.
 
I must drive to Colorado in the morning, Fruita.  It's 1104 miles from 
this part of Oregon.
All to be the best man at a preamble to  divorce. I hope I am wrong.

Fruita has the record for the longest living head without a chicken, or 
was it the
other way around? Weeks and weeks the farmer kept dropping food down the 
neck
hole.
I will be sure and get conformation while I am there.
It will be Tuesday when I check my the e-mail again. I just can't wait 
to read
what happens next!
Kenny O