I have noticed a drastic change in the psyches of lit majors on this campus. After taking Benthall's classes of Renassaince and Exuberance the language of the literature majors undergoes a violence. As an example, entirely against the will of the speaker words and phrases such as "arbitrary" "Hobbesian philosophy" and "false wit" are thrust into our day to day vocabulary whether we want it or not or even whether it is pertinent or not. I think we have a brain-washing law suit right there. Maybe that one would be successful.
"You cannot blame everything on Hobbes' philosophy no matter what our professors say. 'The increase of the price of dog food is clearly the result of Hobbes.' No! It does not work." -Sean
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i agree - hobbes is clearly not the only one we can blame... there are many others who did an equally good job of messing up the current trend the secular world like to call "thinking". :)
i offer for my first piece of evidence: nietzche and wagner.
enough said
Indeed I agree. And I think we should shake up our rantings by varying the particular people we cite as the downfall of Western society (regardless of whether it actually pertains) just to confuse the people we may be talking to. If they get used to our methods they may figure out how to answer back.
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