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this is one of my greatest gripes with academics pedantry directed ridicule this same essay could have been written exactly as is but with the tone of 'you ar
by justifier 11y ago
this is one of my greatest gripes with academics
pedantry directed ridicule
this same essay could have been written exactly as is but with the tone of 'you are so right, here are some examples' but instead he chose to try to make a fan feel like an asshole..
this is my biggest problem with degrasse tyson.. he goes out of his way to make himself a public figure in science but uses the information he has accumulated to make people think they know so much less than he
a perfect example was when he visited the daily show, twice, and complained, jokingly, that the earth was spinning backward in the opening graphic
that graphic was made by some artist and now tyson is using his acquired information to ridicule the individual's effort
if you are knowledgeable then use that knowledge to lift people up
how can we have a graphic of the earth spinning backwards?
perhaps the camera has a capture rate that makes the earth appear to spin backwards, like car tires in films..
or maybe you could talk about geosynchronous orbit and angular momentum and really make people think you know more than them all the while lending excuse for why the earth is spinning backwards..
isaac, you got called out on some stupid thing you said out of a myriad of other entertaining things you have said, have some grace.. or at least a sense of humour
- andyidsinga 11y agohmmm - re asimov: he received a letter from a fan severely lecturing him on a subject. He appears to have read it thoughtfully and then responded in kind - severely, but fairly thoughtfully and with detail. When I send someone a pithy email/comment on a subject and they respond like asimov did -- its pretty cool to me, even though to an observer it may appear somewhat dickish.
- justifier 11y agoyeah i lamented the lack of the actual letter i recognise the strengths in being able to determine if the kid 'had it coming' but still isaac was in the position of power here, and to me it reads like he was embarrassed to be called out by someone he feels unworthy of correcting him
- 5F36B5F62640 11y agoThe lack of capitalization and most punctuation makes that jarring to read, which is why I downvoted you from my normal account. (Commenting to let you know why using a throwaway because I believe that if one both replies and downvotes the downvote is removed.)
- justifier 11y agosorry.. its how i write i've developed the style over time, i think it somehow informed from growing up behind a glowing screen myself, i find i read single sentences quicker than walls of text and just prefer the equanimity of lowercase again, i apologise.. i suppose some may call it 'crabbed penmanship'
- justifier 11y ago'academics' is an abysmal choice of words, alas.. hn locks the state of statements the base generalisation was a direct analogue to isacc's referenced educational hierarchy: I knew very few English Lit majors who are equipped to teach me science i have known great members of academia, i suppose i would replace the word with 'exclusionary pedants'