Today, your plumber would develop Critical Fecal Theory, demonstrating that human history is best explained by ownership of the means of sewage control, as a tool of oppression over non-binary eliminators (NBE). He would pioneer a field of study, then a university department, then a college vice-presidency. Producing consultants, certified by a federal agency, hired to analyze your Domestic Fecal Unit, not to fix it, but to develop a dialogue to unmask power paradigms. Toilets with two flushing options only would be outlawed and replaced with those having a dial to adjust flushing capacity. Byword: "This shit is too easy."
Thank you, that is a very eloquent way of saying what I clumsily try to get across to my students every semester (minus the most important part about God unfortunately). A colleague of mine once emphatically insisted that in agriculture he most definitely trusts the experts doing research more than the local farmers out their growing food. Are these so-called experts, so detached from the rest of us, now the false gods of our age? Hollow eyed and able to do nothing good but so many (even in the church) look to them for truth.
Something Oakeshotte-ish about this observation. One of Oakeshotte's ideas was that human activity cannot be reduced to a description of that activity. It had to be performed, and the meaning was in the performance, not the conceptualizing.
A man, tho, who had truly mastered plumbing would make toilet-repair a pleasure for his customer, and not a tedious experience. He failed at an important part of the performative aspect of his job.
Very relatable analogy. Reminds me of what Dennis Prager says about "expert" studies -- in most cases the findings either align with common sense, or they are wrong. (Example: Studies examining whether there are differences between boys and girls.)
My husband has much to say about the "educated idiots" he has met throughout his life...the PhDs whose sum of knowledge is almost entirely theoretical and whose real-world prowess is sadly lacking. It seems to me that this is where the true dichotomy lies: between the merely book-learned and the expert with the hands-on experience. Surely expertise is more akin to actual ability than it is to theory? I would contend that whatever one does well, with skill and understanding, is something for which one can claim expertise--whether one has letters after one's name or a framed sheepskin.
“Experts” like Yuval Harari, Ibram X Kendi, and Nikole Hannah-Jones among many others address issues that are issues only because there is a clickbait audience for them. Discarding history, tradition, and facts seems to me to be part and parcel of the new paganism. Leaving the successful moral, ethical, and creative traditions we have prospered under for the past millennia can only lead ou further decline and decay.
Does anyone else think a gigantic picture of a golden urinal lowers the tone of the site? I have to have a talk with that kid.
Today, your plumber would develop Critical Fecal Theory, demonstrating that human history is best explained by ownership of the means of sewage control, as a tool of oppression over non-binary eliminators (NBE). He would pioneer a field of study, then a university department, then a college vice-presidency. Producing consultants, certified by a federal agency, hired to analyze your Domestic Fecal Unit, not to fix it, but to develop a dialogue to unmask power paradigms. Toilets with two flushing options only would be outlawed and replaced with those having a dial to adjust flushing capacity. Byword: "This shit is too easy."
Thank you, that is a very eloquent way of saying what I clumsily try to get across to my students every semester (minus the most important part about God unfortunately). A colleague of mine once emphatically insisted that in agriculture he most definitely trusts the experts doing research more than the local farmers out their growing food. Are these so-called experts, so detached from the rest of us, now the false gods of our age? Hollow eyed and able to do nothing good but so many (even in the church) look to them for truth.
Something Oakeshotte-ish about this observation. One of Oakeshotte's ideas was that human activity cannot be reduced to a description of that activity. It had to be performed, and the meaning was in the performance, not the conceptualizing.
A man, tho, who had truly mastered plumbing would make toilet-repair a pleasure for his customer, and not a tedious experience. He failed at an important part of the performative aspect of his job.
Very relatable analogy. Reminds me of what Dennis Prager says about "expert" studies -- in most cases the findings either align with common sense, or they are wrong. (Example: Studies examining whether there are differences between boys and girls.)
My husband has much to say about the "educated idiots" he has met throughout his life...the PhDs whose sum of knowledge is almost entirely theoretical and whose real-world prowess is sadly lacking. It seems to me that this is where the true dichotomy lies: between the merely book-learned and the expert with the hands-on experience. Surely expertise is more akin to actual ability than it is to theory? I would contend that whatever one does well, with skill and understanding, is something for which one can claim expertise--whether one has letters after one's name or a framed sheepskin.
“Experts” like Yuval Harari, Ibram X Kendi, and Nikole Hannah-Jones among many others address issues that are issues only because there is a clickbait audience for them. Discarding history, tradition, and facts seems to me to be part and parcel of the new paganism. Leaving the successful moral, ethical, and creative traditions we have prospered under for the past millennia can only lead ou further decline and decay.