When I started blogging again, I knew it was only a matter of time before the unsolicited email from deluded anonymous kooks would begin to pour in. Here's a sample (all text verbatim):
Why do you think its a joke when famous people die? The passing to Charlton Heston is no laughing matter. He was a true patriot American and did a lot to protect our freedoms especially in the right to bear arms department. When the government comes to take your property and you have nothing to defend yourself with, you'll wish Mr. Heston was still with us to help the fight for freedom.
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Your so-called argument that "Christianity is a lie" is a lie! That you were served beer by some MAN named Jesus (probably the Hispanic pronunciation) on Good Friday establishes NOTHING about the death and resurrection of our LORD, Jesus the CHRIST. Two people can have the same name. Leave it to tenured baffoon liberal academic atheists like you to overlook THIS "inconvienent truth." That you claim to teach LOGIC is the worst part. There is no "logic," no anything, without JESUS THE CHRIST.
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As a contributor to more than one "Pop Culture and Philosophy" volume, I was offended by your post suggesting that people like me contribute to such efforts only because we are unable to place our work in peer-reviewed "professional" formus. Have you bothered to look at the world of the philosophy journals lately? It's a small number of people talking to each other about things no one in their right mind should be concerned with. Where are the big ideas and the big thinkers of today? Not in the philosophy departments, and not in the philosophy journals which you so myopically equate with academic legitimacy. Instead of trying to police the discipline with your hegemonic sense of excellence, just try, for once, connecting with people outside of your comfortable circle of privilege. You'll find that all of your distinctions, analysis, and "proofs" are useless. And then maybe you'll learn what Philosophy really is and should be(come).
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8 comments:
I missed your post about Charlton Heston! Soylent Green is PEOPLE!
You've had a good day, clearly. Thank you for sharing!
Contributor writes: "Where are the big ideas and the big thinkers of today?"
Psst...*not* in Pop Culture and Philosophy books.
Neecer:
"Get your filthy paws off me you damn dirty ape!"
729:
Yes, a classic false dilemma: big ideas and big thinkers can't be found in professional phil, therefore they're found in amateur philosophy.
What a moron. That this guy (allegedly) teaches anything at all is a thought too horrible to dwell upon.
As someone who has contributed to "Metallica and Philosophy," I find this hard to believe: the big names and big ideas continue to appear in Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Moral Philosophy (of course, I'd say that), Mind, and elsewhere.
If these journals are doing this, then I wonder what journals this person has in mind instead.
Brooks:
I think the idea is that the authors and journals you're thinking of are not "big."
I'm new here and this is classic:
"Get your filthy paws off me you damn dirty ape!"
Spiro, you do realize this qualifies you to do the "Planet of the Apes and Philosophy" book for the Philosophy and Popular Culture Series.
This is the best blog. I've read every post. Great stuff!
Dissertator:
Welcome. Glad you're enjoying.
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