I had a realization this morning...i'm too goddamn apathetic to be a good academic. The amount of work it takes to keep up on the latest film/music/news/(insert topic here)/science/philosophy is just exhausting. I feel as though I have the option of either being a pedantic fool who has a cursory knowledge of everything, or the traditional doctor of philosophy who can't function in society outside of her study of Dostoevsky's "use of the indefinite article." I'm sitting in my childhood home, staring at a bookshelf full of Tom Clancy and Chuck Swindoll hegemony, and wondering what one man can do against such a barrage of ideological pornography. And don't take this post to be biased against the conservative milieu, for I profess a rounded hatred for both the left and the right. Both sides stuck in a circle-jerk to their fundamentals - one to tradition and another to tolerance. Do I have the strength to play the games of the academy? Am I content to simply rant to the disembodied online community? I truly do not know, yet I'm grinning a toothy, self-congratulatory smile as I count the number of G.R.E. vocabulary words I used in this post.
