Comments on: Update II: Avoid The American English Department

By: Andrew T.

Andrew T. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:37:48 +0000

Alex,

I’m definitely a classical liberal. I’m a second semester sophomore now, and I’ve lost a good deal of my passion for it all. Your own sincere beliefs are like so many bad jokes to your left-liberal peers. I just don’t try too hard to convince anyone especially if it ever results in grief, and remember the real reasons why I’m there in college, and I find it endurable.

P.S. Ilana: Power/symphonic metal is among my favorite kinds of music! A good prog band like Dream Theater is also wonderful music when you’re trying to reflect or fall asleep. Kamelot is too dark and melodramatic for my taste, though. 🙂

By: Mari Tyers

Mari Tyers — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:20:19 +0000

Ms. Mercer,
Would it be possible to say who your novelist friend is? You have introduced me to good music groups like Dream Theatre and Kamelot, and it would be nice to discover a good novelist as well. I do understand if your friend wants to remain anonymous.

To Alex- I have a polysci degree. I think it was a bit easier for me since I went to a conservative school where it wasn’t unheard of to adhere to small government principles, and I was not the only classical liberal. However, most people at the school were still statists with an emphasis on religion, as opposed to true classical liberalism. It was the difference between Paul and Huckabee.

[I will ask her. I will be reviewing her next book.–IM]

By: robert

robert — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:39:36 +0000

“After my corrections arrived, I was fired immediately. They told me I was not ‘intellectually sophisticated’ enough for the job. To which I replied: ‘You’re right: Fuck you.’”

Ilana,
I wish I could send this brave soul a Christmas card or a first edition of the collected Letters of Evelyn Waugh. She did a great service for the University of Chicago press by sending them the F-Bomb in self defense. Ilana, actually it sounds a lot like something you might say to imbeciles that you meet along the way.

[My friend’s a kindred soul, talented too.–IM]

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:18:10 +0000

Holy cow Andrew – you are a political science major? How the heck do you do it? I had two semesters of that crap, and after being hit over the head with countless diatribes over the evils of capitalism, limited government, and white people, I became burned out.

I started to debate with students in class, and after class, and I got some encouraging results, but probably nothing definitive.

I don’t know how you do it, to be honest with you Andrew. Unless, of course, you are among those who dislike pure capitalism, and the State.

No offense, but who do you think is going to listen to a pro-liberty poly science major?

I feel bad for you dude.

By: Dan Maguire

Dan Maguire — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:35:58 +0000

I suppose that I was relatively lucky in that I did read Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton, and was not forced into the deconstruction march (though the Milton class was taught by an angry woman who took pride in the niche of feminism that demands virginity from its members; looking at the woman explained her adherence). I was also prudent enough to take enough math and stats to enter a lucrative career (I do so enjoy being an oppressor!).

I’ve written it here before, but it’s worth repeating: do not choose a liberal arts major, unless you’re double majoring in something where you will acquire sought-after skills. Even an English major untainted by lunacy will still be an English major at the end. Stay clear, young people, lest you lose your mind and soul.

By: Andrew T.

Andrew T. — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:56:32 +0000

I, a Political Science major, am also an English minor.

Woe is me.