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Who the fuck forgot to tell me that humanities and social sciences are fun??? Like I decided to take gender studies for funsies as an elective. YALL?? This shit is so accessible?? And nice???
Like they explain the theories to you in the same book and have references and citations are simple and I don’t need to Google to understand???
They don’t make memorize 500 brain areas and randomly critique capitalism as if it’s like a normal fucking thing that is known and okay and not out there I love you social sciences.
wtf do you mean academia can be accessible and fun and I don’t need to be on 60 milligrams of Ritalin to pass an exam bc my brain can’t focus this is PEAK
Fuck stem this is unfair
As marketing overwhelms university life, it generates documents about fostering imagination and creativity that might just as well have been designed to strangle imagination and creativity in the cradle. No major new works of social theory have emerged in the United States in the last thirty years. We have been reduced to the equivalent of medieval scholastics, writing endless annotations of French theory from the seventies, despite the guilty awareness that if new incarnations of Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, or Pierre Bourdieu were to appear in the academy today, we would deny them tenure. There was a time when academia was society’s refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As a result, in one of the most bizarre fits of social self-destructiveness in history, we seem to have decided we have no place for our eccentric, brilliant, and impractical citizens. Most languish in their mothers’ basements, at best making the occasional, acute intervention on the Internet. It is proverbial that original ideas are the kiss of death for a proposal, because they have not yet been proved to work.
David Graeber
Ah yes. I forgot. Two short conversations, one of which was obviously the unclear ravings of a sick, dying man, take precedence over years of clear support for Rhaenyra’s claim. My bad.
What’s astonishing to me is how the things said to any character on team black is taken as “omg there’s so much meaning in what they’re being told, like this is so important to remember because it’ll definitely effect the future” but when a character on team green is told things y’all basically think “it’s not that deep, I don’t see why they’d be affected by it and why it would influence their future decisions and actions”
For example: when Viserys was saying TO ALICENT that he thought he made a mistake naming Rhaenyra heir, then years later just straight up mumbled an out of context prophecy before he died… I don’t understand how y’all act like those scenes have no impact on Alicent…especially after she’s manipulated by her father to think her children are in danger because Rhaenyra is heir.
I suggest at the very least, take a social sciences class, maybe then you’ll learn that when things are said to a person, that person remembers those words and takes those words into consideration whenever anything hinting at their validity happens.