[MD] The Academy is Evil! Here's what I'd do instead...

[John Carl]

Ian, Ian, Ian,
I did not realize how much I have missed you.
Let me count the ways.

one.

It's not just looseing rigid logic to fuzzy logic, it's logic itself
> that is at fault, when we are asking why, what value ?
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>
two.


> Clearly Pirsigian (and Deweyan, and Jamesian, and Maxwellian, and
> Hofstaderian, and .... many other) academics make a little headway
> here and there, but the collective is in the Giant's grip.


three.


> it's Maxwell's neurosis of
> scientism. A preposterous arrogance that by building logically on what
> we already "know" we make progress - Doh! 9th floor, so far so good.
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>
four.


> That's not a reason to give up the fight against the Giant, but a
> reason to stop arguing using the Giant's preferred meme, playing into
> the Giant's hands and merely re-inforcing the problem. (I wish I had
> time to write that essay ....)
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>
(me too)

five.


> Scientists discover new life ?!?! WTF .... gimme strength. (and no
> dmb, like Wittgenstein, I do not expect you to understand, but I still
> love you, man.)
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>
six (blush)


> Bring on the poets, Dan, John ... (Matt dare I say)
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