This quarter is the closest I’ve ever come to burning out. Not from overwork, or from senioritis and being done with school, but from the content of the courses. Actually, no, that’s not true. I could handle it if it was just the courses, but it’s coming in from every direction these days. When I enrolled in these classes, I didn’t realize I was signing up for a great class on Shakespeare and two ten-week invective filled diatribes on why America is horrible.
I’m sorry, you want to see why America, and California’s education system is failing? Look in a mirror. You are the problem, Various Professors* and every one else who shovels the same inane academic nothingness down our throats. Well, congratulations. You’ve almost done something I though was impossible. Convince me to vote Republican in 2010. I was seriously considering reregistering on their ticket the other night, when I realized something. YOU SOUND LIKE THEY DO. You mirror the same exact anti-intellectual anti progress self-centrist apologetic drivel that we have forced down our throats again and again by Fox News. You are Academics, not intellectuals, and you are doing your best to indoctrinate my generation and to force us to spew the same meaningless blather you do. You’ve made sure we’ve stopped learning from history in a way that lets us move forward, and instead mired us in the past almost irredeemably. Your jingoist crap means NOTHING in the bigger picture, it’s an obsession over details that were important at their time, and are meaningless now except through your massive redefinition of importance. You raise issues again and again and again, but rather than dealing with them and letting them heal, you’re like the masochistic idiot who just keeps reopening old wounds to let them bleed and bleed and bleed until they’re so far beyond the point where they can heal it’s practically a joke.
You are the finest examples of Ivory Tower Academia I have ever seen, except rather than ivory your towers are made of shit. And you wallow in it. You’ve thrown open the doors, doing your goddamn level best to kill off everything that made the tower special, hollowed it out, and covered it with crap.
Fuck you, fuck your views. Fuck everything you stand for. You’ve become what you hate. Racist, self centered, western idealistic assholes. You’re so determined to prove how you’re better than people were in the past you haven’t even realized that you’re making the same damn mistake that you spend your lives bitching about.
Congratulations. I’m done. You’ve burnt out every last strand of caring that I have. Die alone.
*It should be noted that exactly which professors fill that role will vary lecture to lecture. This is, after all, a rant, not a well reasoned piece. If you think it applies to you and it feels accurate, it probably isnt. If you don't think it applies to you, then it probably does and you should consider trying to understand what might provoke someone to rant about you. It could be anything, from a personality conflict to a dislike of lecture material to my objecting to your invective filled anti-american rant that so far has concluded with the idea that not only is life sacred, doing any sort of life-saving-but-unrequest-medical-prodecure is tantamount to rape, even when it's just a blood transfusion to save you and your unborn childs life, because it some how violates your religious tenets more than dying would. ... Also note, if it's the latter, I probably think you're a moron who should be on MSNBC or Fox News influencing the masses, instead of in a classroom influencing the tiny segment of American Society who actually is trying to better themselves. Then again, I'm referring to an introductory level class, so it's not like anyone is paying attention to what you say.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Dear Professor Hong, you are wrong. The Linolium Cut started in 1905, and was not a populist movement. Yes, I realize some of that was a quote, but you are still wrong. You will not stop being wrong. You could have been right if you'd taken three minutes to google linolium cuts, or Linocuts as they are apparently normally called; but you did not. This is why no one likes you. You're a fauxexpert on everything you talk about. You're no better than a talking head on Fox or MSNBC
Many of your arguments would be quite powerful if they were true. Unfortunately, as tends to be the case with people who make their points the way you do, you have your historical fact wrong. Admittedly, I could be mistaken, but as I understand it, and that's the important phrase there because I don't claim my knowledge to be absolute, but YOU ARE WRONG. About everything you're saying. Your points would hold if these were the first, or even early linocuts. THEY'RE NOT. You're wrong. Shut up. No, seriously, stop talking. You're building your entire argument off of a false premise. Like you do almost every lecture.
Do you do research? Ever? Yes, you obviously do some, but not about the core facts. You some how manage to research the symbol but not the medium the symbol is on. Then again, you're teaching a comic book class without ever looking at the central foundational texts that make up the graphic novel genre, so I really shouldnt be surprised. We have not looked at these works from an artistic perspective, just from a symbolic one. You pay lip service to the idea, but you don't explore the medium, ever.
Just stop. Please. Or make attendance not mandatory. Because this class is painful. To the nth degree.
Many of your arguments would be quite powerful if they were true. Unfortunately, as tends to be the case with people who make their points the way you do, you have your historical fact wrong. Admittedly, I could be mistaken, but as I understand it, and that's the important phrase there because I don't claim my knowledge to be absolute, but YOU ARE WRONG. About everything you're saying. Your points would hold if these were the first, or even early linocuts. THEY'RE NOT. You're wrong. Shut up. No, seriously, stop talking. You're building your entire argument off of a false premise. Like you do almost every lecture.
Do you do research? Ever? Yes, you obviously do some, but not about the core facts. You some how manage to research the symbol but not the medium the symbol is on. Then again, you're teaching a comic book class without ever looking at the central foundational texts that make up the graphic novel genre, so I really shouldnt be surprised. We have not looked at these works from an artistic perspective, just from a symbolic one. You pay lip service to the idea, but you don't explore the medium, ever.
Just stop. Please. Or make attendance not mandatory. Because this class is painful. To the nth degree.
Looking around this class, LTMO 145 C The Graphic Novel, is an interesting experience. Admittedly I am sitting in the middle of the room, not the front, but still. Looking around I see four people playing attention. I'm not surprised, really. Anyone who reads this probably got the link from my Facebook where I've made my opinion on how bad this class is painfully clear, but still.
For the record, if you ever teach a class, you shouldnt need to stop every ten minutes to resummerize everything you just said. If you have to do that you either A) are being offensive to your class by treating them like idiots, or B) are a horrible lecturer, and thus need to do this for anyone to know what the fuck you're talking about. Neither of these are good outcomes.
Oh well. The course is almost half over. I'm looking forward to being very done with this class. It's been all around mishandled on the professorial side. Our TA is doing his best, but let's be frank. No matter what he does, and he doesn't seem to be any more thrilled with the class than we are, he can't make up for three terrible lectures a week. And that's what we get. If you take the good parts of all of the lectures we've had, you end up with maybe one lectures worth of well done material.
On monday, in section, we were asked to give feedback on how the class has been going. It's nice to see she's taken it to heart. By which I mean ignored it with the same skill Sarah Palin ignores criticism. Then again, I've called her a short-asian-liberal-academic version of Sarah Palin quite a few times. If the label fits...
For the record, if you ever teach a class, you shouldnt need to stop every ten minutes to resummerize everything you just said. If you have to do that you either A) are being offensive to your class by treating them like idiots, or B) are a horrible lecturer, and thus need to do this for anyone to know what the fuck you're talking about. Neither of these are good outcomes.
Oh well. The course is almost half over. I'm looking forward to being very done with this class. It's been all around mishandled on the professorial side. Our TA is doing his best, but let's be frank. No matter what he does, and he doesn't seem to be any more thrilled with the class than we are, he can't make up for three terrible lectures a week. And that's what we get. If you take the good parts of all of the lectures we've had, you end up with maybe one lectures worth of well done material.
On monday, in section, we were asked to give feedback on how the class has been going. It's nice to see she's taken it to heart. By which I mean ignored it with the same skill Sarah Palin ignores criticism. Then again, I've called her a short-asian-liberal-academic version of Sarah Palin quite a few times. If the label fits...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Has anyone noticed how no one judges things on an real basis these days? When was the last time you heard of a movie, or a politician, or even a piece of tech being debated on its own merits in a serious way? I'm not talking about websites like wired or other places that are actually supposed to look at things this way. They usually at least pay lip service to it. That's more than I can say for the 24 hour news channels.
No, I'm talking about in your average discussions. Look at the comments on those same articles. Look at facebook and twitter after the announcement that Avatar took home nine Oscar nominations or after the IPad was announced. How many of the criticisms can be boiled down to "Oh It's a Mac Product. It's crap!" Or "Oh, It's a Mac Product! It's great" or "Man, Avatar made so much money. People are stupid."
Seriously. You guys are fucking morons. OH NO SOMETHING IS POPULAR. IT MUST SUCK BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR AVERAGE PERSON IS A RETARD. Man, I'm so cool. I only like unpopular stuff. It makes me different. And unique. AND I'M A UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE. Now excuse me while I shop at hot topic and circlejerk with the other nine trillion morons who are just as unique as I am and parrot the same views.
Criticism of these products is valid. I'm not saying it's not. More power to you if you have problems with them. But those have to be actual problems. Not "I hate mac products!" or "Avatar shouldn't have made so much money because it was cliched!". Actual problems are things like "Well, the Ipad is really just an huge Iphone. That's... not really that impressive." or "Well, Steve Jobs is a fucking moron who hates styluses, so we're going to have to fingerpaint on our Ipads, which is stupid." Those are complaints. Those are actual issues you object to. You're not arguing on an ideological basis, but on the basis of fact, and of things that matter.
That's what you should be talking about. So the next time you sit down to say "Man I hate X because it's made by Y and Y is a meanie", shut up. No one gives a fuck what you think. Of course, no one cares what I think either, but you're on my blog, so it's your own fault for subjecting yourself to it. Rant about your ideologies in places where people have to make an effort to find you, not all over my goddamn facebook feed. Because I don't care about you, and neither do your friends.
No, I'm talking about in your average discussions. Look at the comments on those same articles. Look at facebook and twitter after the announcement that Avatar took home nine Oscar nominations or after the IPad was announced. How many of the criticisms can be boiled down to "Oh It's a Mac Product. It's crap!" Or "Oh, It's a Mac Product! It's great" or "Man, Avatar made so much money. People are stupid."
Seriously. You guys are fucking morons. OH NO SOMETHING IS POPULAR. IT MUST SUCK BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR AVERAGE PERSON IS A RETARD. Man, I'm so cool. I only like unpopular stuff. It makes me different. And unique. AND I'M A UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE. Now excuse me while I shop at hot topic and circlejerk with the other nine trillion morons who are just as unique as I am and parrot the same views.
Criticism of these products is valid. I'm not saying it's not. More power to you if you have problems with them. But those have to be actual problems. Not "I hate mac products!" or "Avatar shouldn't have made so much money because it was cliched!". Actual problems are things like "Well, the Ipad is really just an huge Iphone. That's... not really that impressive." or "Well, Steve Jobs is a fucking moron who hates styluses, so we're going to have to fingerpaint on our Ipads, which is stupid." Those are complaints. Those are actual issues you object to. You're not arguing on an ideological basis, but on the basis of fact, and of things that matter.
That's what you should be talking about. So the next time you sit down to say "Man I hate X because it's made by Y and Y is a meanie", shut up. No one gives a fuck what you think. Of course, no one cares what I think either, but you're on my blog, so it's your own fault for subjecting yourself to it. Rant about your ideologies in places where people have to make an effort to find you, not all over my goddamn facebook feed. Because I don't care about you, and neither do your friends.
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