You know though, as people are waking up, trying to take the wheel back, and beginning to look around... The rearview mirror is going to really bite the left in the butt. And people are waking up, at various stages and levels. And we are looking back once we gain a little better cognition.
That reminds me of re-watching some 80's or 90's show that I thought was hip, profound, or inspirational at the time. So much to learn, only one life in which to do it. Still...
The Literature of Fact? Sounds ominous, sort of like The Fiction of Fact.
Incidentally, professors with hoity-toity endowed chairs in big departments typically teach only one course per semester. With this guy, though, the endowment would more appropriately confer on him the title of Ferris Bueller Professor of Journalism.
What Doom said - but Teh Looking Back thing, that's why they Left is busy vaporizing their traces and throwing what they can down the memory-hole and trying to change the past.
If you blog with LiveJournal, you're a Journalist, no?
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You know though, as people are waking up, trying to take the wheel back, and beginning to look around... The rearview mirror is going to really bite the left in the butt. And people are waking up, at various stages and levels. And we are looking back once we gain a little better cognition.
That reminds me of re-watching some 80's or 90's show that I thought was hip, profound, or inspirational at the time. So much to learn, only one life in which to do it. Still...
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
The only thing missing are the dick jokes.
Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton.
That's appropriate, actually. It nicely illustrates the distinction between "journalism" and "reporting the facts".
It gets even better. The course (THE course) he teaches in the Fall semester is entitled "The Literature of Fact."
As though he'd have any actual experience of it.
The Literature of Fact? Sounds ominous, sort of like The Fiction of Fact.
Incidentally, professors with hoity-toity endowed chairs in big departments typically teach only one course per semester. With this guy, though, the endowment would more appropriately confer on him the title of Ferris Bueller Professor of Journalism.
1984 came and went, and nobody even noticed.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Well, you know what they say: "those who can, do-- those who can't, teach."
What Doom said - but Teh Looking Back thing, that's why they Left is busy vaporizing their traces and throwing what they can down the memory-hole and trying to change the past.
If you blog with LiveJournal, you're a Journalist, no?
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