Bourgeois academics love a confused and disjointed salad of words, it’s even worse than some court decisions I have to read that drag to get to the point, and judges complain if I base my client’s request with more than 3 paragraphs.
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I genuinely don’t understand what the author is trying to say
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Thanks, that makes much more sense.
I did understand the point made by Roderic (yeah, we’re on a first-name basis) because it was simple in both concept and writing
Ooh word salad 🥗 Yummy 😋
Huh
SpaceCowboy’s response to Grain Eater is good. In my own words:
Average people are taught by capitalism to be self-contemptuous, to think they are stupid rubes who should shut up and listen to authority figures of capital who surely must know so much better than us. In reality, average people are massively selling their own mental faculties short, and most people with a brief education of reading comprehension would be able to easily outsmart the bourgeois academics. These bourgeois academics use purposefully, needlessly complicated, smug, smart sounding language to make the masses feel subconsciously insecure about their own expertise on the world. Self-contempt, self-mockery, other synonyms like self-depreciation, etc. are unhealthy on both a personal and political level.
Self-criticism, however similar it may seem on the surface, is not at all the same thing, however, and is necessary for both personal and political growth. A good communist should not undersell the infinite abilities we all have to improve, should not overestimate the intelligence or knowledge of bourgeois “experts” who are total hacks, and who should be willing to healthily self-evaluate and constructively criticize themselves and improve.
