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I meant that in the sense of "spending thousands of dollars and months of one's life to take a course that revels in incomprehensibility and subjectivity, leavened with stereotypical calls to abandon rationality in a manner eerily reminiscent of a random scene from an Ayn Rand book"

It's just that, good lord, who of us would choose a course like that over a real class?



If this were reverse engineering of some obscure long out of use protocol it would be heralded as great hacking/fascinating detective work/interesting puzzle.


I think people are voting you down because they think you're talking about the guy who WROTE the book, not the author of the article. That's what I thought...

That said I think everyone who goes to college has a few humanities requirements, liberal arts major or not. A class with this book in it would have been much cooler than most of the classes I took, humanities or otherwise.




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