From my boss, Ken

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:01:22 Mark Otter wrote:

>The Truth About College:

> Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college:

> 1. Things you will need to know in later life (two hours).

> 2. Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours).

 

> After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to

>choose

>a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most

>things about.

 

Yes, the long process of

denial and hard work of forgetting can be

quite stressful at times.

>He wants

>you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have

> agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this.

 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!

 

Yes, they seem to have the mentality, the more,

the merrier and the more correctly it reflects

reality, a kind of safety in numbers.

Author William Gibson once called

his literary concept of cyberspace and virtual reality

"reality by consensus" and it seems to me it's not the only reality by

consensus around.

> PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding

>there

>is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch.

 

>This is because sociologists want to be considered

>scientists,

>so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious

>observations into

>scientific-sounding code.

>If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get

>a

>large government grant.

 

Ha ha ha ha ha !

 

There is a post modern sociology paper constructor on the net somewhere, a

program that consctructs

post modern sociology papers in about 20 seconds.

It writes scitific sounding code like that example

and it is all pure nonsense but looks really complex

and impressive.

 

Thanks for sending that, Mark, I enjoyed it a lot.

I more than once have

arrived at the same conclusions given here.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

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