glorious, glorious balderdash

lnelson

hegemony, bailiwick, chimera, chiliastic, hermeneutics...

your turn! keep the list going!

whynot_31

wait, are we talking about words we had to learn in college from leftist professors?

and/or words we briefy thought actually played a role answering all of life's questions?

....but really just made us sound like annoying potheads?

cultural imperialism
paradigm

jeffrey

Oh, stop being such a Martinet.

This is a basic one, but I was always amused at the number of times "society" would appear in various essays.

I usually tried to avoid "society" at any cost, personally.

Does that make me a misanthrope?

lnelson

whynot_31 wrote: wait, are we talking about words we had to learn in college from leftist professors?

and/or words we briefy thought actually played a role answering all of life's questions?

....but really just made us sound like annoying potheads?

cultural imperialism
paradigm

those are the exact kinds of words i was thinking of. in fact, i was going to include "paradigm" in the original list, but i thought i should leave it for someone else.

patriarchal
praxis
signifier

lnelson

(Apologies to David Foster Wallace in all this. He is permitted to have used any word he saw fit.)

whynot_31

can we be lazy and post entire sites?

on the left
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
http://www.workers.org/

on the right...

http://www.heritage.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics
http://www.aei.org/

on the I can never figure out...

http://www.soros.org/

booklaw

On the nominal topic of "Glorious, glorious balderdash", and consistent with WhyNot's reference to words which "we briefly thought actually played a role answering all of life's questions", does anyone remember the absolute thrill they felt when they read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and especially Atlas Shrugged, learned about "objectivism", and most important, realized they were their own generation's closest thing to John Galt, and would someday become the engine that moved the world?

(At least until they (a) discovered pot and acid or (b) graduated college and had to take a menial, low-paying job, with minimal or no authority whatsoever?)

lnelson

Me! Me me! Oh, Ayn Rand. How can I count the ways?

whynot_31

Ayn and I go way back.

...and Huxley's "Brave New World". Why hasn't anyone invented Soma yet?

...and "Lord of the Flies" as well.

there was a long period of telling people 15 years older than myself about books they too had read. For the most part, they patiently listened to me describe them the books the first 4 times.

lnelson

whynot_31 wrote:
...there was a long period of telling people 15 years older than myself about "Brave New World". Why hasn't anyone invented Soma yet?

...and "Lord of the Flies" as well.

They patiently listened to me describe things they too, had read.

It's like a 4-year-old telling the "Orange you glad I didn't say banana" knock knock joke. A little annoying, but also endearing. A phase we all must go through.

...

In other news, I'm surprised no one has challenged my having immunized David Foster Wallace against any prosecution for his loquacity.

What, are you guys too dumb to have read Infinite Jest?

...Which I did, TWICE, making me the ultimate smartest and therefore best of us all.

hamilton

[quote="whynot_31"]Ayn and I go way back.

...and Huxley's "Brave New World". Why hasn't anyone invented Soma yet?




.
al gore did, along with everything else.


it's a top seller with the stroller moms.

whynot_31

I'm glad no one has mentioned Kafka yet.

booklaw

Please! We have enough cockroaches in this town...

canyontothesky

On a more literal note, balderdash is such a fun board game! :-D

lnelson

Agreed.

jeffrey

lnelson wrote: It's like a 4-year-old telling the "Orange you glad I didn't say banana" knock knock joke. A little annoying, but also endearing. A phase we all must go through.

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