A Genuine, Warranted Snark

[elfs]

As an aside to the previous post, Jeffery Tooby, while discussing the general effeteness and inadequancy of "blue state," "European" men, added in his question to Pinker:

Dennis Miller has the line that we have our pet medications Federal Expressed to our front doors, and al-Qaeda looks at that, and thinks, we can take those guys.

Dennis Miller? Dennis Miller? Have you even heard a recent broadcast of Dennis Miller? Without his HBO passel of writers, the man is as funny as a toothache and as insightful as a zombie. There's a reason he's on Clownhall Radio in the deathly unlistened-to hours of noon to three.

I guess Tooby doesn't have much to do in the middle of the day.

What the hell is it with these quasi-intellectuals who suddenly find themselves parroting the very worst talking points of the conservative movement? Tooby right's up there with Mamet, getting some bizarre frission by imagining himself with a knife gripped in his teeth as he defends the West against slathering brown-skinned hordes. Tooby's questions to Pinker come from deep within the epistemic closure, and are seeking only validation of answers Tooby already has.

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[urox.livejournal.com]

Because they are bullies and know they can take on pacifists.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

About those quasi intellectuals: they're not. Not intellectuals, not in the sense of people who think about things and discuss them.

They're PR operatives. They're done thinking by now, and are out to persuade people. Insight thanks to Adam Curtis.