For it is the duty of the good man to teach others the good that you could not work because of the malignity of the times or of fortune, so that when many are capable of it, someone of them more loved by heaven will be able to work it.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
A Coven of Bed-Wetters
Or the BM symposium. Considering the levels of invective in BM and the general attitude to academics I should think this is a mild start in the insult stakes. For a disturbing sample of such invective cf. the master - Sale Famine.
I don't like the guy's tone I have to say - but I think by 'bed-wetters' he means (and I'm guessing here...) academic people who by definition are cut off from the 'real world' and therefore suffer from arrested development (hence bed-wetter) and make up fairy tales about stuff. But it's just another way of bedwetting - he's just marking his territory.
I thought it might be something like that - or I thought implied nocturnal emissions and lack of control. However, unfortunately the real world is all too present...
The rest seems pretty usual, I don't mind scepticism but insults I find hard to take. I'm not exactly school age so the playground stuff annoys.
I just happen to like BM, after being introduced by friends, and pretty much loath at least some of its politics, hence the paper. No doubt people would have more fun at a BM gig, but then I am nerd enough to like intellectual talk about things plus actually enjoying them.
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Well, they have a point
but I don't wet the bed, what does it mean metaphorically?
I don't like the guy's tone I have to say - but I think by 'bed-wetters' he means (and I'm guessing here...) academic people who by definition are cut off from the 'real world' and therefore suffer from arrested development (hence bed-wetter) and make up fairy tales about stuff.
But it's just another way of bedwetting - he's just marking his territory.
I thought it might be something like that - or I thought implied nocturnal emissions and lack of control. However, unfortunately the real world is all too present...
The rest seems pretty usual, I don't mind scepticism but insults I find hard to take. I'm not exactly school age so the playground stuff annoys.
I just happen to like BM, after being introduced by friends, and pretty much loath at least some of its politics, hence the paper. No doubt people would have more fun at a BM gig, but then I am nerd enough to like intellectual talk about things plus actually enjoying them.
...is a fair set of points.
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