Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Lubos Classifies Lisi: Surfer Dude Einstein meets The Ripper


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My Frontier Thesis said...

Not to draw too much of an analogy, but lack of concern for precision and accuracy with the English language (Scientific or Literary) is an incredible problem in what has been described as our Post-Modern World. Certainly it's problematic in the Scientific world. Our English Departments are possibly even worse.

The idea that many writers have today is not to try to describe a new emotion, or to try to tell the reader something profound. Rather, a smorgasbord of words are thrown together for whatever reason (perhaps the author "feels" it is right), and it's shuffled off to some publishing house. Since these writers are already on the inside, they have no problem getting their works published.

According to B.R. Myers, the lack of thought toward that these Post-Modern writers use in constructing sentences is irrelavent to them. The writers will just say, "If you don't understand it, then it's over your head."

Myers also adds that there is more substance in the first couple pages of Musil's, The Man Without Qualities than the millions and billions of pages of print that the major publishing houses and the NYT today continuously regard as "works of staggering genius." (and so on and so forth).

11/21/2007 10:37 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Note: Myers is a bit loopy himself, according to the wiki entry. He's a vegan, supports the Green Party, and to top it off purchased a house in New Mexico in 1999!

11/21/2007 10:41 AM
Tecumseh said...

This kid Lubos is pretty good at explaining crackpots. How did AA find him? Just clicking on things?

11/21/2007 12:39 PM

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