Scaling the Ivory Tower

This country is wild.

But most of the intellectuals and artists are missing the whole show.

Sitting in the subsidized ivory tower of academia, the intellectual theorizes on hyper-theoretical postmodern superstitions, jerking off to dreams of one day becoming recolonized by Europe. Even if they could reconnect with Ameircan life they could only see it terms of formulas lamenting the bourgeoise. Their gestures of revolt are stale.

Academia has become little more than a game. The "theory" is like a commodity to peddle. Intellectual knock-offs like Stanley FIsh and Judith Butler don't give a flying fuck about capitalism , basking in six figure salaries and paid speaking tours(Fish drives a jaguar and can be identified from afar by his super-expensive scarf). These "anti-capitalists" are just as concerned about status as any member of Wall Street.

If academics truly believed what they said they would forget the academic norms and concerns of status, forget the politics of the University and get their hands dirty.