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P : what’s the state of our education system right now?
E : dismal, boss. why?
P : i see. too bad. i’m thinking of setting up a new university.
E : well, you’re in power so you can very well do whatever you please. but, why should we set up another?
P : i haven’t decided yet. but i say … isn’t that astronaut a looker!
E : i guess …
P : i know! we’ll set up a university for Space Studies! how smart are our kids, sport? not like, smart in Math but you know, street smart. wise.
E : well, they’ll do whatever you want them to. so i guess they can be smart if you asked, Math-wise or wise-wise.
P : really? perfect. we’ve done well with our policies then. if what you say about them is true then i’m glad we decided to cut funding for the Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. we did the right thing. it worked. those damned programs breed trouble-makers.
E : because they force the kids to think? to use their faculty of reason in human situations?
P : exactly. we don’t need that. that’s my job. i decide what they should think. too many ideas is not good for us, you know. the thing about the masses is they can’t think for themselves. they think they can, but they can’t. i know this.
E : naturally. you were a Social Science graduate.
P : Sociology and Media Studies, yes.
E : but Sir, not every one of these kids want to study square things, you know. not everyone’s cut for Physics and Chemistry. Biology … Math …
P : Business Administration. do it now. with immediate effect, increase our scholarship funds for Business courses. that’d keep the f*cking liberals-wannabe busy.
E : how so?
P : it’s an alternative to the square courses. we’ll trick them into thinking that. and with lots of scholarship money on the plate, they’ll bite. or at least their parents will.
E : you’re brilliant!
P : not naturally, no. it happened in college when i did my final year paper on propaganda and manufacturing consent. oh, how i miss college life. those wonderful October days when ~
E : how will we pay for the new university?
P : huh? what new univer ~ oh, the space school? send the bills to the Russians. they owe me one.
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I think I might as well have done Space Studies* as Journalism! … Except I could never be an astronaut: call me precious, but I wouldn’t be able to shit and piss in a bag. And when I was a kid I never wanted to be an astronaut (I think I knew instinctively that space is f*cking boring) — it was always a zoo-keeper. I’d still like to be a zoo-keeper … but for the money issue. Did you hear about the zoo-keeper in Frankfurt who was giving a constipated elephant an olive-oil enema, and the elephant let rip and the barrage of turds knocked him to the ground, where he hit his skull on a rock and died?
* Were you still in the U.S. when ‘White Studies’ was introduced in (?) U.C.?
i’m afraid i never heard about the Frankfurt turd incident until you mentioned it here. i can see you as a zoo-keeper though, Mikey.
and no, i wasn’t in any of the UC’s and wasn’t aware that White Studies became an official course. then again, i was in the Confederate South so ‘White Studies’ was a required experience. no need to take a class on it
*She majored in succotash, with a side of squash …*
Were you to be found at hoe-downs, playing the banjo?
What’s with the pic next to my comment? I don’t wanna be an angry gay icon.
P.S. Have you read White Noise? … I was reminded of ‘Hitler Studies’
harmonica. and i’ve changed the pix to a monster robot instead.
i’ve not read White Noise tho i have White Mythologies …
I, Robot: What is White Mythologies?
it’s a book, a study of epistemology. a post-modernist deconstruction of the world’s largely Eurocentric narrative of History.
Holy f*cking shit! I am getting a migraine just reading about it.
Was it a gas?