6 thoughts on “Continental Intellectuals”

  2. My theory is that human adults retain a bit of programming left over from childhood. As children, we constantly hear adults using complex sentences that we can’t yet parse, full of words we’ve heard but don’t quite understand. But instead of assuming the adults are babbling nonsense, we must think “smart adults are talking and it’s way over my head. They are really smart and one day I’ll understand what they’re saying.”

    And somehow Postmodernists discovered that the childhood mental circuit can be triggered in adults by using complex sentences that can’t be easily parsed, full of vaguely defined words, so that the listeners can’t figure out what’s meant. And all the listeners conclude “The speaker must be really smart. One day I’ll understand what they’re saying.”

    It was a simple hack to achieve academic success in fields where nothing actually had to work (unlike STEM), and merit and status was the result of opinion. So people using the scam shot to the top of academia, and the ranks filled with people who were in on it, though perhaps some didn’t really understand the scam and how it worked.

    1. I think a better approach would be to fund a high quality legal defense of everyone in Britain subject to this sort of harassment. My bet is that it would end fast. Of course, they might do tit for tat, and cause the same sort of legal mayhem in the US. Win-win.

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