Apparently I need to do a better job of valuing the heart as a repository of knowledge.
Are you mean or sarcastic when someone asks "what does the mean?"
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I don't want to essentialize too much, but man. The Anishinabe academics I know in Minnesota are way less uptight than that.
Speaking of exaggerated laughter, how about that guy at the beginning of The Magnificent Seven who laughs at the guy challenging James Coburn? "HAW-HAW!" I wonder whatever happened to him? Probably wound up being Nelson Muntz's great-grandfather.
Somehow the fact that she chose to format it as a quiz just kills me.
By halfway through the quiz I was looking for the next question to be "Do you even know what you did wrong?"
Do you fail to understand that knowledge may not be friendly and happy?
Friendly knowledge! Happy knowledge!
This is just a secular lefty version of scrutinies. Unless it is ironic.
About half of them are asking about "impure thoughts".
I'm not sure what is meant by "do you think knowledge is linear?".
I assume it means that knowledge is exponential.
I think it means knowledge is supposed to be circular, like time, which is some bullshit right there, I tell you what.
You could ask in the comments there.
I think it just means that if you keep at it, eventually your knowledge will be more than the sum if its parts.
Happiness runs in a circular motion. Love is like a little boat upon a stream.
Is it, like, one point per question?
'Splain, 'splain, colonial, colonial.
20 like a steve miller song
21 how hopelessly linear
I guess I should have gone with "colonize".
Question 34 really has question 1 dead to rights.
Donovan, I think, not Steve miller.
Colonize, masturbate, colonize, colonize.
#41 confuses me because it is trying to entrap allies, I'd think.
Do you deny that knowledge is an economy?
Yes?
The Pawnee used the word "entrap" to mean "accept the extra collision coverage" in the context of renting a car.
30: purity police lurve entrapment
I had somehow missed 24 when I wrote 29. Or I was mansplaining.
Is it just me or does the term "lateral violence" imply accepting an objectively determined, external hierarchy?
Anyway, Canada is so nice that its earnestness is nearly indistinguishable from our sarcasm.
Don't project your paradigm's criteria, Moby.
God, way to be unable to value that there are parallel paradigms of knowledge production.
I think the rough draft of this quiz had "or what?" Tacked on the end of each question.
Not "or what?" This is so Canadian it would have been "eh?"
The fact that I find this funny is why they have nationalized health care and we don't.
41 -- My dad proposed to my mom like so: you going to marry me or what?
Happiness is an awkwardly phrased marriage proposal.
Happiness is orthogonal to knowledge.
Do you fail to understand that the meanings inherent or under words, symbols, icons, and colour are fluid and shift?
The meaning under the color is fluid! It's seeping out everywhere and oh god the colors
Doesn't #32 invalidate the whole quiz?
Also, I was hoping that there'd be a key to reveal my fun personality type based on the number of yeses I answered.
Also, anthropological studies have pretty definitively shown that colors are not fluid and color perception identification is pretty universal. This is some pop Sapir-Whorfianism that has been pretty definitively disproved. #academicpedantry #missingthepoint
#8 sounds hella anti-intellectual to me, and I say that as a stereotypical religion-hatin' internet atheist. (Also, linking to a dictionary definition? Yeah.)
#6 is strange, although perhaps it's making some sort of distinction between jealousy and envy. I'm sure I would understand if I went to Mirriam-Webster.
I think her name is Miriam Webster.
#30, my friend. Possibly also spell-correct.
Merman Webster, the lexographer of the sea.
Merman Webster
There's no business like word business.
#8 is weird in part because of the use of "deconstruct". Yer classical iconoclast isn't doing any abstract philosophizing, y'know.
Maybe it means the kind of deconstruction you do with a hammer.
Happiness is orthogonal to knowledge.
Is this where we finally, in our quoting of every goddamn line in Love & Death get to do "to love is to suffer"?!
15 is the most obscure programming language joke ever made.
64:
More than that, it was resourceful.
Do you fail to understand that the meanings inherent or under words, symbols, icons, and colour are fluid and shift?
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to understand that the meanings inherent or under words, symbols, icons, and colour are fluid and shift.
I think it means knowledge is supposed to be circular
And there I thought it meant knowledge was supposed to be multidimensional. Boy do I feel stupid no.
I'm not taking that quiz unless it will tell me which era David Bowie I am at the end.
The quiz is a bit officious, but it doesn't seem quite so bad. I must be mellowing in my old age.
Would have done well on Buzzfeed if titled "Which Pop Philosopher are You?"
The answer, of course, would have been randomly selected.
62: Is this where we finally, in our quoting of every goddamn line in Love & Death get to do "to love is to suffer"?!
I hope you've been getting all of this down.
I don't know what any of the questions were after about #11, but I'm hoping one of them was "Did you TL;DR this quiz?"
The tl;dr summary location is filled with "Please like and share this blog."
Do you engage in exaggerated laughter when you do understand the profoundness of the knowledge offered yet you do not want your followers to engage in the critical thought required as you prefer them to remain an ignorant follower?
duh.