Academic Work
I read back on some of the papers I wrote in college, and I can’t help but laugh. Some of them I totally threw together off the top of my head, with very little research or work put into them. Only a few of these are true academic heavy weights, and those ones make me laugh the most.
Why all the jocularity? Because it’s all a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Scholarship in the mainstream, university setting, is a big word game. You don’t just study the works of other great thinkers, you study the works of scholars who studied them. It’s all just this big abstraction of language, a big who said what about, disguised with complex sentence structures and ten dollar words as a true substance. But it’s all nonsense when you really get down to it. All the facts and information we memorize aren’t true knowledge, and all the fancy theories we formulate and study don’t amount to jack shite in the real world of human experience. But still, there is something to be gained from learning how to formulate ideas and write them out cohesively, so my $60,000 education wasn’t a total loss.
Here are some of my papers, if anyone (and this is a long shot, I know) is interested.
- Ethics of Genetic Manipulation
- Die Gefahren der Wissenschaft
- Jane Eyre
- Rorty and Relativism
- William James
- HP Grice and Language
- Kant and Duality