Philosophy Graduate Student and Professor

[bwest8888]

This video is fucking retarded. You don't have to have gotten your graduate degree from an Ivy League to get a job teaching philosophy. Maybe to teach at a very prestigious university, but not to teach it at a CC for instance. In which you'd probably make just as much too.

[studentofsmith]

The study of philosophy can help you become a better person and citizen but it is of marginal economic value. When it comes to making a living you're better off learning a trade or technical skill. Remember, the world doesn't owe you a living, it was here first.

[MrSodapopinski51]

Why is it bad to be an elite? Can someone tell me the logic behind that? And why am I necessarily bad for getting angry when someone says I'm an idiot for bettering myself by going to get a Ph.D? Its like watching a car wreck - the more I feign anger, the more the trolls stoke the flames :) I feel like I'm back in Junior High. Its great that the internet brings out the 13 year old in all of us. All the porn you can get and faceless insults to boot!

[dzsquared1]

@MrSodapopinski51 Somebody needs a nap.

[ThewildRageofGordon]

@MrSodapopinski51 Because it implies someone is not an elite. "Shrink not from envy, appanage of bliss." - Sophocles, The Agamemnon, 5th century B.C. (of course, this is treacherous advice (given by Clytemnestra to Agamemnon)).

[MrSodapopinski51]

Ok, ok, ok, before anyone else posts that I'm an elitist asshole, just look at the fucked up comments the average assholes published that I'm responding to before you label me. Plus, I blame the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin (and 8 years of dipshit Bush Jr) for making being an elite a BAD thing. Shit, I am proud to be an elitist! It means I'm on the upper echelon of our society intelligence wise. If you are offended by that, then go vote for Michelle Bachmann, stop ridiculing Ph.D's.

[MrSodapopinski51]

"I think you're pissed off because so many trolls came to your thread" excellent observation. So, you deserve a fucking medal. Stop telling me I'm an elitist asshole - I have earned that right by actually finishing a doctoral program (something nobody else on this thread knows anything about, but seems to make broad assumptions about) everyone can just fuck off. Please. Stop talking to me. Just watch the video and then say I'm an elitist while you are jerking off to Shyla Stylez Videos.

[wiseman2131]

I was going to post a positive comment about the video, then I saw the uploader comments. If you absolutely cannot stand these 'dipshits' then you really should get off the internet. I just think your really pissed off because so many trolls came to your thread.

But nevermind, I've never been good at trying to convince logic to elitists anyway.

[MrSodapopinski51]

its all a moot point anyway. there will be a world war in the next few decades, all the dipshits posting on youtube will get theres once some asshole third world dictator we've pissed off by bombing them unleashes chemical weapons on NYC. If that doesn't do it, there will be a world war once the oil runs out, or global warming makes the world uninhabitable, or our money becomes junk once we default on our national debt. Humanity is fucked. Period. Its over. there is nothing we can do, game over

[MrSodapopinski51]

read the comments and if you can't figure out who is the real asshole then I have nothing else to say. 99.9% of people in america are dipshits anyway. No big surprise.

[ExileDragon]

@MrSodapopinski51

You have just passed the fine line that exists between elitist asshole and schizophrenic. Congratulations.

[MrSodapopinski51]

I am an elitist.

[hotlavaman]

I liked the video, but why are you arguing with people on the Internet over this? You're making yourself out to be an elitist asshole.

[MrSodapopinski51]

thanks for the useless info! Dipshits are in full force on youtube threads! Note to self, NEVER under any circumstances post a video on youtube, the trolls come out and want to shit on your face. :) All the best!

[sirconfuoco]

hahaha! i love this!

[MrSodapopinski51]

What public library carries Deleuze? Just stupid trolls coming out of their dungeon to comment again. Get a life. You sound so ignorant it's just silly.

[witnesstheday]

@MrSodapopinski51 uhm. heaps? they have them at my university (everyone can enter, it's just you cannot BORROW the books unless you're a student). same with journals, you can access them on campus.

also the state library has them freely for all members (membership is free).

so yeah.. they do have them.

[Joe11Blue]

Wow, paying a tuition to read works that are freely available in the library. That's about as intelligent as a marathon runner cutting his own foot off.

[KrfNYC2]

Long arms.

[ThcPatient]

"...you will teach philosophy at a local Burger King after graduation." After I stopped laughing I went back and watched the rest of the video!

[MrSodapopinski51]

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - French Critical Theory.

[alamedvav]

what is the philosopher she is referencing. And the book antiediphus? (sic)

[ThcPatient]

@alamedvav Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher (1925-1995). He wrote Anti-Oedipus.

[dzsquared1]

@ThcPatient Anti-Oedipus can be cured with pennicilin.

[MrSodapopinski51]

Spoken like someone who never went into grad. school for philosophy... keep telling yourself you think deeply without going to school... maybe dragons and unicorns are real too!

[TheSideduck]

@MrSodapopinski51

Oh man, it must suck eating ramen noodles for every meal and still thinking you are smarter than everyone, bro.

[figocooldude]

@TheSideduck The dude just has some issues.

[MrROTD]

I don't need to get a degree to ponder complex ideas, I do it non-stop anyway.

[TheVintageCurls]

teaching philosophy at a local burger king...omg

[Faulknerphile]

It was the line about teaching at Burger King that got me