Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:02:18 -0800
From: Patrick Crosby <pcrosby-AT-ieee.org>
Subject: Re: [BOU:] l'affaire du foulard


john.kaman wrote:

>As I say, if you really believein what you say congratulations.  Most people
>no longer believe in anything.  Now get out of academia and do something
>about it.  Bourdieu did and he praised others who followed his example.  So
>let's crack that cocoon and get moving.
>
>  
>
Well, maybe you do have "kinder, gentler" side after all. As for me, I 
do not now and never have held a position in academia. I'm an unemployed 
electrical engineer (I have too little tolerance for corruption to be 
considered employable by most large engineering organizations).  In my 
free time, I work on my book debunking Rush Limbaugh's favorite author, 
Ayn Rand.  (I don't know whether I'll ever find a publisher, but I've 
had great fun in writing it. My intention was for it to not only expose 
Rand for the fraud,  plagiarist, and general bundle of contradictions 
she was, but to be a lot of fun to read as well. For example, Rand was 
fond for coming up with names for supposed fallacies on her own, such as 
"the fallacy of the stolen concept." In this spirit, I accuse her of 
committing the "fallacy of the ditched premise" throughout her work).  I 
also take music theory and composition courses at my local community 
college. I only started at this a year ago, but I'm now beginning to 
enjoy  writing fugues a great deal.
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