Tag: Argumentation

  • Why being the creative type sucks, an ironical freeform pwm.

    Question to ask somebody: When you think, do you do as I do and sing the words a little bit to a tune you do not know, nor to which you might not see the next bars of on the score? Do you like me swing low over the phrases of this poem, thrashing, gesticulating…

  • On University of Chicago’s Biggest Lesson

    I’ve long joked with my friends that the most valuable skill one can take away from a University of Chicago education is the ability to genuinely forget everything one learned during the course of that education.

  • In Defense of Darkness

    My post “JDR Makes A Film” received the comment below: – – – This was disappointing. A worthless, somber look at a day that brought many neighborhoods together and gave joy to countless curiously eager and vigorous young people. You missed a great portion of the people’s positive spirits during today’s citywide snow day. Sorry,…

  • On College, Critical Thought, Cattle, and Baking

    I’m not afraid of expressing my misgivings with the “education” I’m receiving at the #4 ranked institution in America. UChicago possesses a certain self-righteous rhetoric pertaining to its general, or Core, curriculum. Founded in the constructivist school of learning theory, the Core’s teaching methodology consists of reading “primary-source” text documents and leading students, like cattle…

  • Introducing Oratorize.

    Of many things, the prime one that precluded me from writing on The Halcyon Days is not my college workload (which can be largely shirked and/or explained away) but the fact that I’ve been doing a lot of freelance writing for a couple of websites and fleshing out the skeleton I built for Kairos Praxis.…

  • On Social Networking and Personal Branding

    I stopped tweeting last week. I did not, however, delete my Twitter account. What prompted me to do this was an interview on a two-way radio communication program, Fresh Air. Interviewed was a journalist who just won a Pulitzer prize for a series he did on distracted driving: how cell phones–talking, texting, and emailing–change the…

  • On The Hating of Haters

    This is a co-blogging effort with a couple of friends in response to negative feedback some of us received on our recent posts. Check out Patrick Ip and Ted Gonder‘s response to the following question, phrased so eloquently by Ted:  As young guns rise to the archetypal “top”, they are often discouraged, doubted, and “hated…