Help me out here.
So Tribe made an ass out of himself by writing a bunch of drivel and 0 got his name on it as a sort of honorable mention. Doesn’t this mostly show that Tribe is the dork, and 0 went along for the ride? How does this say anything about 0? This sort of thing goes on all the time in academia.
I wasn’t about to wade through all that horse hockey - but is Tribe basically saying “everything’s relative” - i.e. the old “living, breathing” crap? If so, again, there’s probably not a whole lot new here except for the fact that Tribe dressed his article up with a lot of physics mumbo-jumbo.
Or is there another way to look at this?
The Tribe material was probably plagiarized.
If Obama was involved, someone ought check if
the original author was allowed to live.
I think the main purpose of the article was to poke a little fun at self-important academics (Tribe) and the sycophants who enjoy being associated with them (0).
I haven’t been around any academics for years and I’m sure there are thousands here who could say the same. One thing is clear — in the 40 years or so since I’ve been away from “the inkwell,” as we used to call it, the amount and degree of ego-flexing that goes on display has gotten way, way out of hand. And 0 fits right in with it.