Viksaa wrote:
Because I'm pretty familiar with these types (family), and they tend to rely on sodomite-media sites like pitchforkmedia.com for all of their opinions. They are like lemmings.
No more lemming-like than those who rely on FOX for all their opinions. Or MSNBC for all their opinions. Or standard pop radio for all their musical tastes. Or hipster shops for all their clothing tastes. Get over kid. We are all lemmings in some way.
Viksaa wrote:
Record (or get someone to record) a small musical album. Make the music intentionally obscure and weird. Walk around on a campus asking people if they'd like to hear/comment on the new album that is being hailed as "genius" by nearly every critic across the board. We would make it clear that we are trying to understand "why" it is brilliant. My hypothesis is that 90% of the students would agree with its brilliance, and then continue on to make up some blathering nonsense about why it's so good.
I love it. These kids you hate are out there living their lives, socialising, having fun, growing up, and you are holed up in your depressing apartment bitterly plotting against them.
I feel for you man.
Yes - this sums it up perfectly. There's something really sad about Viksaa's original post.
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Viksaa wrote:Record (or get someone to record) a small musical album. Make the music intentionally obscure and weird. Walk around on a campus asking people if they'd like to hear/comment on the new album that is being hailed as "genius" by nearly every critic across the board. We would make it clear that we are trying to understand "why" it is brilliant. My hypothesis is that 90% of the students would agree with its brilliance, and then continue on to make up some blathering nonsense about why it's so good.
I love it. These kids you hate are out there living their lives, socialising, having fun, growing up, and you are holed up in your depressing apartment bitterly plotting against them.
I feel for you man.
How do you know? He or she could be anything or be doing anything. Suggesting playing a practical joke on a group that takes itself too seriously hardly indicates that someone is holed up in a depressing apartment.
And I don't take the Sokal affair as some sort of grand intellectual accomplishment or an indictment of a whole field or whatever, but to someone who has had a few college liberal arts courses it is quite humorous.
For more innocent fun involving mocking academic work in the humanities, try the postmodern language generator!
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/This reminds me a little of the Joshua Bell playing in the DC Metro experiment. The scenario is essentially the opposite of the one you are posing. For those not familiar, Bell is considered on the greatest musicians and violinists performing today. He performs in packed out auditoriums at $100+ per ticket, has won grammys, etc. But when he set up and played some of the classic repertoire in the subway for 45 minutes no one paid any attention to him. There are a lot of links if you search.
It just goes to show that when it comes to art, context can be everything.