Intellectual Crapola

Often I think about going back to graduate school to get my PhD or another Master's Degree. Luckily, I know people who are still in college and can remind why I left in the first place. The following written by a student studying at Oxford. Her one line rebuttal at the end is spot-on, I think.

fredric v. bogel has now spent 67 pages deconstructing the
relationship between satirist, satiric object, and the reader. he
obviously thinks he has something very important to say. i beg to
differ. everything he 'discovers' is so painfully obvious. the best
part is when he spent like 10 pages proving that when you're "here",
you're also simultaneously not "there". spectacular! let me break that
down for you. what he's saying is that since you're in oakland, you
are also (at the very same time no doubt) not in oxford. do you get it
now? i know, it took me a couple times too. it's pretty deep stuff.
one of his "analogies" may help: "This is why the Lele people, in the
Congo region of Africa, do not simply shun the scaly anteater called
the pangolin, an animal that is in many ways a kind of cultural
nightmare since it threatens so profoundly the classificatory system
on which that society is founded. The Lele hunt, cook, and eat the
creatuure, incorporating rather than evading its threatening
condition; in doing so, they seek to acknowledge, and to draw upon,
the power of the anomalous, the ambiguous, the self-contradictory".
NO. I'M PRETTY DAMN SURE THAT THE ONLY THING THAT THE LELE PEOPLE ARE
ACKNOWLEDGING IS THAT THEY'RE HUNGRY.