Andkon's Daily Rightings

Andkon is the shining bacon of the 21^st century, single-handedly leading humanity out of the uncertain present. Apart from managing the world's best arcade, he writes daily to cultivate the ignorant masses

Dissident Andkon, Intellectual Totalitarianism

It's hard being Andkon. Failing to grasp my pretty simple yet informed message, some (like Purposeless Pussy) have in the past lashed out like mad dogs in their complete ignorance. While they come with a sugarcoating of civility, as soon as you wash away this superficial layer, they show their true colors of spiteful rage and intolerance, as was clearly the case with Purposeless Pussy who kept maintaining the illogical connection between Iraq's continued "defense" and America's freedoms, despite my arguments which shattered such utter nonsense.

While Adolf's Apologia has not been graded yet, I did get a test (compromising of short, impromptu essays) back. I will not explore the content of my essays at this time as the purpose is expose my general theory of blatant fraud that slithers around under the name college "education."

Before passing back the tests, the professor read to the class an essay from a good test. As I listened, something became very clear: this supposedly good essay had absolutely no original or creative ideas to express. It was literally just a summary, a good one, but nothing better than what can be downloaded from the straight-forward summaries of Sparknotes.com, which ironically is a place students are told to avoid. I couldn't believe my ears: a glorified book report with absolutely no analysis was getting lauded as a model to strive for.

As can be easily deduced from this site, I have evolved beyond juvenile summaries, and I'm sure the readers of this site feel the same about themselves. For me it's not "Mozilla releases new website with sparkly buttons, HOW COOL!" but "Mozilla's new site has the very real potential to become the barrier to millions, needlessly." I do not like being subjected to elementary school type material. But even then, teachers didn't punish kids who were ahead and went beyond the call of any assignment. And I foolishly thought that an Honors course went beyond the material of nine-year-olds. At least now I know that to succeed in this class: the fellatio of choice is unoriginal nothing. In other words, I must become a book report writer or pretend I'm part of the Sparknotes staff (yet again, note the irony).

Another clear indication of bias towards my actual content was the lack of time spent grading my test. This I know because each test had a time stamp. Mine read 12:21, while some else's had 12:24; meaning that in three minutes they [two professors in the class] managed to read through out loud to each other and grade my 900-word collection of short essays covering five topics. Unless I'm missing something or the dear professors seem to have superhuman capabilities or are endowed with telepathy, there's simply no way in hell that the 900 or so words in my essays could be read and graded. It's humanly impossible.

The grade itself merits consideration: 76.8. Ah, hell with it! It's obvious people who can read at superhuman speeds can also assign precise grades that are correct to the tenth of a percent.

Despite the length of the test, there were only two brief and amazingly rude comments. One, "cut the B.S. and get to the point!" Oh dear professors, B.S. is called analysis, you should be glad someone has a brain and original thoughts! Two, "This is too general. You need some detailed content [Andkon: summary, summary, summary]. You also need arguments!" which is hilariously ironic considering there were no other comments or even underlines marked anywhere.

After turning back the tests, the professor extolled the virtues of Louis IX, some long-forgotten king who went on the 8th and 9th Crusades, both of which were miserable failures (which reminds me of a certain President). Of course, since the material was written by a sycophant 800 years ago, this historical fact did not come to light. At any rate, the professor accused me of "American secularism" when I implied that Christianity didn't then need to conquer any land; people don't and didn't need a specific location to worship.

I got furiously pissed when he dismissed my claim without offering to hear my counter-argument. The professor's misunderstanding stems from the fact that he views the Crusades as excusable due to their (marginal and irrelevant) religious aspects, which eerily reminds me of Osama bin Laden's eloquent excuses for sliding two planes into the World Trade Center... At any rate, remember kids, if you pray and don't want to declare war against Israel because they don't handover Jerusalem to Christians, then you're a dirty secularist, despite the fact that what you seek is not worthless land. Did you vote for John Kerry? Do you enjoy sodomy as well? What a horrible asshole you are!

Also, "Award to the Intolerant" who refuse to allow fair debate, past, present and future:

Jon on Mar 29, 2005 @ 23:16 wrote

andkon on Mar 30, 2005 @ 00:59 wrote