**Intermittently transmitting warning signals from the outermost rim**
Saturday, 13 February 2010
The joke isn't funny anymore
After what has just happened at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, I cast my mind back to the distinction drawn in Will Teach for Food: PhD can mean two things: Poor Hungry Desperate, or Privileged Histrionic Demanding. Of course, nothing can excuse such an extreme form of protest, and I feel so sorry for the victims....
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"Defects of empirical knowledge have less to do with the ways we go wrong in philosophy than defects of character do; such as the simple inability to shut up; determination to be thought deep; hunger for power; fear, especially the fear of an indifferent universe" (David Stove The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies 1991: 188)
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