Rooterspeak: Language of the Left
WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists…
9th World Multi-Conference of Systemics, Cybernetics, & Informatics
Earlier this year, graduate students at MIT’s PDOS research group attended the 9th World Multi-Conference of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics. Although their research paper Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy was accepted, the submission wasn’t as important as its lack of content; for the paper was nothing more than a randomly generated set of incomprehensible words organized to sound like something coherent and meaningful. The students’ intent was to challenge organizations that they suspect have low submission standards for academic content.
Speaking of low submission standards, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an essay this week by Alan Wolfe, a political science professor at Boston College. In his essay titled “The Authoritarian Personality†Revisited, Wolfe struggles to reconnect the mangled extremities of communism, Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School into a sort of political Frankenstein to accuse republicans and conservatives of being protofascists.
For those who aren’t familiar with Adorno or his gibberish, a Google search will convince the curious that Rooter’s randomly generated words make much more sense.
For example, one of Adorno’s “critical thoughts†was that the purpose of modern music was to make listeners go crazy:
“…It is not that schizophrenia is directly expressed therein; but the music imprints upon itself an attitude similar to that of the mentally ill. The individual brings about his own disintegration… He imagines the fulfillment of the promise through magic, but nonetheless with the realm of immediate actuality… Its concern is to dominate schizophrenic traits through the aesthetic consciousness. In so doing, it would hope to vindicate insanity as true health.”
Further exploration of Adorno is pointless, for his study was debunked by the scientific community by 1954.
But rather than citing the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, or our founding fathers, Professor Wolfe relies on Theodor Adorno’s bizarre opus to attack the detractors of Earl Warren and the UN – and individuals like Pat Robertson, Ambassador John Bolton, and Americans who support them, as protofascists.
Wolfe tells us that fascism doesn’t exist on the left because, as Republicans move toward the right, Democrats have shifted toward the center. And while I accept that those who live on the careering train of left-wing academia might feel like everything else is center or far right, only those suffering from political vertigo would call voters who continually reelect Ted Kennedy centrist. And unlike Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton, I can’t think of one republican who has killed or sexually assaulted anyone – or who demonstrates the facility of Soviet-style veracity AND remained in office. The US Senators who lockstepped to nullify Bill Clinton’s felony demonstrated something more akin to the Politburo than mainstream America.
I suggest that the next time Professor Wolfe attempts to attack conservatives that he visits the PDOS research group to support his next thesis. This would save him the time of piecing together fake studies that were shredded by real scientists long since gone.
Cross-posted at ex-Liberal In Hollywood
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October 6th, 2005 at 7:32 pm
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