harlan ellison

college students are stupid

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[jhnyn]

Yes, I recognized your moral superiority when you called me a douchebag. I'm not complaining, I started it by calling you a tool. I take it back. You're just a twerp. A whiny one.

Ignorance is curable. So no, its not that bad. Giving up a night of American Idol to read a book would help with the long term cure.

[TheeUnidentified]

"Education is a condition of imposed ignorance." - Chomsky

Within that statement lie the nuts n bolts of why an average college student in the US wouldn't acknowledge the significance of Dachau. A college education *can* be highly beneficial, but not within the current racket-framework were it's often a 'test' that many undergo to demonstrate that they want nothing more than to be the most valuable corporate whores possible, eager to sell their souls for illusions of status and privlege.

[Crazydog7]

I felt my spine go cold.

[KaijuEigaMan88]

@fxnmx So making one very minor mistake in vocabulary automatically invalidates my opinions? Congrats on making a sweeping generalization about someone you've never met, douchebag.

And no, I didn't reinforce Harlan Ellison's point. It was a harmless mistake. I'm sure you've made plenty of syntax, grammar, and spelling mistakes before, but are too egotistical to admit it. Even Harlan Ellison, that overrated piece of shit, has made his fair share of mistakes, like becoming an author.

[fxnmx]

@KaijuEigaMan88

That would be "drivel" instead of "dribble." If you haven't mastered such basic vocabulary then your opinions about literature can't be taken seriously. Thanks for reinforcing Ellison's point.

[neosoc]

I'm a college student myself. Class is in a while, guess I'd better get to the cafeteria before they run out of puree of bat guano.

[KaijuEigaMan88]

Before any of Ellison's fanboys jump on my case, I have read some of his material and it does not deserve to be called great literature. His short stories are incoherent, absurd dribble that make Thomas Pynchon's stuff sound sane. His essays are the mean-spirited, depressing rants of a mental case. At least when Al Goldstein did his Fuck You rants on Midnight Blue, he was actually funny. I'll stick with the true masters of literature: Wells, Hemingway, Frost, Poe, Verne, Orwell, Twain, etc.

[KaijuEigaMan88]

Harlan Ellison is a sad, pathetic little man. While I can agree that it is pitiful for people to not recall major historical events/figures/places, there's no reason to hate someone just because they haven't spent their lives memorizing every minute detail of a life event. I am a college student myself and well aware of the horrors that happened during Adolph Hitler's regime. I have actually gone to hear a Holocaust survivor recount her memories at a public speaking. She has since passed away.

[posthumanhero]

well, perhaps it could be to ones personal benefit not to know what dachau is or even forget about it..........if freudian psychology teaches us anything it's 'do not dwell on the past'..........transversely, the girl might know something about caterpillar larvae and help many people through it -- or not help anyone at all except herself......people are not ingratiated to know anything in particular and people like harlan get off on belittling people who don't know what they should....fuck 'em.

[tuxguys]

One of my great heroes, back when I still had heroes... and what he's referring to is what I call "cultural literacy," and he's right:

The brightest of my students don't know half what I would expect them to know...

...but the BRIGHTEST of my students are eager to learn, and that's where it all begins.

[gooyzit]

This is a problem with History Education, history is once of the lest popular supjects in school at any level, WWII history is usually taught in 9th graders and teachers only spend about three weeks on it.

[QWYX9]

What does he say from about 2:26 to 2:31? Please.