Your clearly some kind of anthropologist, likely cultural, probably went to grad school. You watch critical theory related videos on youtube and identify yourself as politically left wing.
This stack actually highlights one of the biggest problems with academia. Look at the subjects covered by these books: philosophy, early and modern; economics, history, anthropology, religion, political theology, literature, the list goes on. And many of these aren't "foundational" books that you'd pick up the subject from, but are research monographs written from a particular angle with a particular argument. Now, there's not a problem with seriously studying these works, even the "woke" ones. But no scholar, especially not a twentysomething, can actually read this much, chew on it, digest it, and form their own opinions on what they read. This much volume of controversial material amounts to voluntary indoctrination, and while he may have an easier time speaking the academic parlance because he inhaled all these books, he's shot himself in the foot as a thinker, because his theoretical framework is built on a house of cards and it's career suicide to question it.
This is what happens when you let academics build courses around their favorite books and personal tastes rather than following an established canon laid down by university elders as it was done in the middle ages. People shit on the medieval era, but the average University of Bologna neophyte probably had better training in the foundations of scholarly thinking (logic, grammar, rhetoric, poetics) than most PhD students today. But this has a drawback too. I spoke to a guy who studied in Deoband which still has a curriculum based on one from the 18th century, and he told me he met 16 year olds with better Arabic skills than most Western Arabic scholars, but they spent 5-6 years honing these skills to the exclusion of everything else. They become masters of Arabic linguistics working their way up through every major work of grammar penned since the 11th century but don't know how to use a computer.
>me he met 16 year olds with better Arabic skills than most Western Arabic scholars, but they spent 5-6 years honing these skills to the exclusion of everything else. They become masters of Arabic linguistics working their way up through every major work of grammar penned since the 11th century but don't know how to use a computer.
that's based as frick
Interesting take that I wish more people knew. I try and buy books that deal with both sides of an issue (debate books on various topics, or get a book from both sides). But what are you supposed to do if there is no opposing books to a biased book you are reading? For example I read a book that deals with ethical issues surrounding treatment of eating disorders, but there are no other books like it even, yet alone with an opposing viewpoint. I know part of the answer is to think critically yourself and come up with opposing questions in books, but I can only come up with so much on a topic I know very little about.
You don't read.
That not you.
Very middle class
How dare you
Tonight you tongue Black person buttholes.
>huwite guy with lots of books about being black
Huge red flag honestly. I’d dip.
>96% paperbacks
Yikessss
Your clearly some kind of anthropologist, likely cultural, probably went to grad school. You watch critical theory related videos on youtube and identify yourself as politically left wing.
>trustfund loser marxist who only interacts with blacks when they deliver his doordash order
Many such cases
I firmly believe this man only did this for pussy
This stack actually highlights one of the biggest problems with academia. Look at the subjects covered by these books: philosophy, early and modern; economics, history, anthropology, religion, political theology, literature, the list goes on. And many of these aren't "foundational" books that you'd pick up the subject from, but are research monographs written from a particular angle with a particular argument. Now, there's not a problem with seriously studying these works, even the "woke" ones. But no scholar, especially not a twentysomething, can actually read this much, chew on it, digest it, and form their own opinions on what they read. This much volume of controversial material amounts to voluntary indoctrination, and while he may have an easier time speaking the academic parlance because he inhaled all these books, he's shot himself in the foot as a thinker, because his theoretical framework is built on a house of cards and it's career suicide to question it.
Good take
This is what happens when you let academics build courses around their favorite books and personal tastes rather than following an established canon laid down by university elders as it was done in the middle ages. People shit on the medieval era, but the average University of Bologna neophyte probably had better training in the foundations of scholarly thinking (logic, grammar, rhetoric, poetics) than most PhD students today. But this has a drawback too. I spoke to a guy who studied in Deoband which still has a curriculum based on one from the 18th century, and he told me he met 16 year olds with better Arabic skills than most Western Arabic scholars, but they spent 5-6 years honing these skills to the exclusion of everything else. They become masters of Arabic linguistics working their way up through every major work of grammar penned since the 11th century but don't know how to use a computer.
>me he met 16 year olds with better Arabic skills than most Western Arabic scholars, but they spent 5-6 years honing these skills to the exclusion of everything else. They become masters of Arabic linguistics working their way up through every major work of grammar penned since the 11th century but don't know how to use a computer.
that's based as frick
Interesting take that I wish more people knew. I try and buy books that deal with both sides of an issue (debate books on various topics, or get a book from both sides). But what are you supposed to do if there is no opposing books to a biased book you are reading? For example I read a book that deals with ethical issues surrounding treatment of eating disorders, but there are no other books like it even, yet alone with an opposing viewpoint. I know part of the answer is to think critically yourself and come up with opposing questions in books, but I can only come up with so much on a topic I know very little about.
I troonyheart Black folk
>What do you guys think of my stack?
I think the pompadour is a hairstyle named after Madame de Pompadour, a mistress of King Louis XV of France.
>hey everyone look at me!
i fricking hate people that take pics like this
looks like he wants to tell me about how plant medicines helped him understand white privilege on an even deeper level
Anon you need to have more succulents in your goypartment bro. lmao
Would.