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Re: of "experts" with their "degrees".....
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Sunday, July 21 2013, 20:51:15 (UTC)
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Noam Chomsky recently has been in what someone called a "nerd fight" with Slavoj Zizek in which he accused Zizek and his supposed mentors Derrida and Lacan, so-called "experts", as doing nothing more than posturing by using fancy words like "theory". Chomsky's approach is that if you're not able to explain something in five minutes to a 12-year-old, than you're more or less a bullshitter. I never finished a degree, either. I spent a year in the film department before I left, since all they were teaching me was not how to tell a story visually on film, but how to sell a product -- pure fuckin' Hollywood training. Then I went and applied myself for another year in the Art History department, then another two semesters in Sociology, before I said fuck all and quit. Fortunately, it was right about that time when I met my real teacher, not in the Cinema or Art departments, but in the History and Political Science departments. In the seven years under the tutelage of this professor, I learned more about film, literature, poetry, music, philosophy, psychology, politics, history, etc., than I did taking classes form "experts" in those fields. As you can tell, I can't write for shit, but it was my professor, who like Chomsky, used to tell me to write my papers imagining that it's a conversation I'm having with him in a bar over some Martinis. A great man, and a fantastic teacher... and I'm still able to sit in his classes, as I plan to this Fall, because from day one he knew I was there to learn instead of just simply following orders to get a good grade, or a degree that I can hang on my wall like a picture of a hard dick that shoots blanks.



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