Posted on 05/13/2015 12:33:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The good news for my generation is that we finally make up a controlling portion of the working population. The bad news is, that there probably aren't enough blankies and nap rooms to accomodate all of us as we graduate into the real world. At least, as some of us graduate into the real world. Others of us have too many things to do to take time out of our day to cuddle stuffed animals and gripe to each other about the cultural appropriation and microagressions typically associated with the Patriarchy.
Thankfully, college students have no such demands on their time, which is why a cadre of Columbia University students are able to, collectively, pen an op-ed calling on their institution of higher learning to take a second look at the foundational works of Western literature and the building blocks of modern thought in order to preserve their adorable, innocent and easily-triggered minds from the mere threat that they might have to welcome in an opposing viewpoint or critically consider historical cultures in addition to their own coddled experience.
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Ludicrous. Doesn't the university see it is being punked?
I hope you did The Iliad too.
We didn’t have time for that, but I may get back around to it one day. I’m busy reading American classics and political works by the Founders at the moment. :)
I said “if”. They gotta start someplace. Or they can just be Eloi. Food for the Morlocks. HG Wells nailed it a century ago.
Kidding? I guess you get my thrust. We have rampant ignorance all over the place and anything that can’t be fingered-up on a hand-held is just too much work to bother with.
And if you think the number one is agressive just think 250 pound linebacker Marine re-training the occasional millenium. Just the memories give me a warm fuzzy upper.
Of course, hypothetically everyone has a "trigger" somewhere. Generally we don't pay them any heed, and just get on with it. But when a "trigger" threatens to disrupt one's functioning, as with these etiolated little flowers, it is a sign of mental illness, not worthwhile sensitivity. These pathetic creatures need therapy not college. They are clearly not ready for the cold cruel realities awaiting them.
You know, I've suspected that for awhile.
You don't notice it, but it's always starting things.
I’ll go even further - did you ever notice that in any of the great disasters in history both math and physics are involved? Why we didn’t ban them long ago, I just can’t imagine...
The Greek myths are stories the Greeks told about their gods and expressed their ideas on such things as good and evil and human failings. How can this possibly be one of those “trigger points”? During WW-II kids their age were enduring the horrors of a world war fighting the Nazis and the Japanese to save the world from fascism. Today’s generation are epitomized by Obamacare’s metro sexual pajama boy who needed a cup of hot chocolate to fortify himself to sign up for Obamacare and who would piss himself if he even saw photos of what his grandfathers generation did during the war.
It was not the Holy Romans it was our friends the Muzzles. Their rational? If it wasn’t in the Koran it wasn’t true and if it was then we didn’t another source for the truth. The Prophet be praised. Allah’s clark bar.
I know. Because once they got together and started breeding, they made... statistics.
And from statistics we got Social Sciences.
And from Social Sciences...
...Liberals.
More than one makes a group.
Small or large it doesn’t matter.
Once in a group, even a “like minded” group, you will have lost your liberty in some way.
History begins when they enter College?
Liberals make groups TO lose themselves.
Muzzies hadn’t been formed yet. The Holy Romans burned the library at Alexandria, Egypt about 391 AD-—300 years before Moohamud. Constantine, usually considered the first Popester, or Holy Roman leader, apparently thot there was just too much heresy in all those historical accounts of pretty much everything that was known before. So he had it torched. I suppose his burn-fest made the later churchdicks think it was OK to run the Inquisition for 500 years or so. It’s fascinating just how much our various churches have tried their best to keep us from having flush terlets for the past 2,000 years or so.
Maybe we’re seeing the millenials form a new church. Call it the Church of Idiocracy——that movie was right on.
Yep. Sounds like reddit.
I think there are so many already written papers about classical lit floatig around out there that a) even in an original paper nobody will think of anything new to say, and b) maybe it’s time to look at other books that don’t have so many pre-written papers one can tap and hand in as their own work.
What are you Maya Angelou's agent?
Seriously, douche, do you always have to be a presumptive jerk?
Why the hell would you think that’s what I meant they should read.
I mean are you just so antisocial you cannot help yourself?
Cheezits. Maybe look at what you write before actually hitting the Enter key.
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