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AAARGH!
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:18pm
by fgalkin
I’ve just bought my final book for this semester. It’s called “How 2 Take an Exam…& Яemake the World” by Bertell Ollman.
Now, in addition to being over $20.00, while being small enough to fit in my pocket, this book is the biggest piece of bullshit leftist propaganda, I’ve seen in a long, long time (and, coming from a left-leaning moderate, that means something).
Being the nice person that I am, I offer you the “Mind Gulag” test from that book , which “determines how much of your mind is already under enemy occupation”.
Answer True or False:
1. Human beings are basically greedy and selfish.
2. The rich deserve what they have, because they earned it.
3. The poor also deserve what they have, because they haven’t tried hard enough to improve their lot.
4. There have always been rich and poor, and always will be.
5. For democracy to exist, it is enough that two parties contest in elections, and that people are not coerced to vote for either one of them.
6. We are free as long as the state does not restrain us from doing what we want to do.
7. The American government has been a major force promoting freedom and democracy around the world.
8. Most Americans are middle class.
9. Most workers are satisfied with their conditions and would never go on strike if not stirred up by outside agitators.
10. Socialism is what they had in the Soviet Union.
Now give yourself ten points for every time you answered true. Add up the total. Here are your prizes. Those who scored 0-30 win an Albert Einstein Medal for Critical thinking. Take an extra medal if you know that Einstein was a socialist. If you have 40-70, you receive a Tiresias Pin (with points on both ends) indicating that you can go either way. While those who racked up a count of 80-100 win a Ronald Reagan Gulag of the Mind Banner, which doubles as a blindfold, painted in red, white ad blue…
And which course is this book for? Orientation Seminar (the course which teaches you about college life)
My score on the test was a 30, btw.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:23pm
by haas mark
What. The fuck.
:shock:
~ver
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:24pm
by Joe
Heh, I scored a 90.
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:24pm
by Zac Naloen
abah... what?
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:25pm
by fgalkin
Oh, and I forgot to mention that he quotes Marx every other page and blames the "evils of capitalism"
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:26pm
by fgalkin
Durran Korr wrote:Heh, I scored a 90.
I've scored a 30, and I have no idea what Einstein being a socialist has to do with critical thinking.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:27pm
by Joe
Then you should write the author a letter demanding your $20 back. He has no right to participate in capitalism if he doesn't believe in it (same reason I don't think Noam Chomsky should be accepting royalties from sales of his books).
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:27pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
I got a 70...
Crazy Reds.
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:31pm
by Mitth`raw`nuruodo
Uhh... 70
And that is an... interesting book. How exactly does this teach you about college life again?
Posted: 2003-09-15 05:32pm
by fgalkin
Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:Uhh... 70
And that is an... interesting book. How exactly does this teach you about college life again?
it has tiny sections of test-taking tips sandwhiched between the author's rants.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-15 07:08pm
by Col. Crackpot
Durran Korr wrote:Then you should write the author a letter demanding your $20 back. He has no right to participate in capitalism if he doesn't believe in it (same reason I don't think Noam Chomsky should be accepting royalties from sales of his books).
i've always found tha amusing about chompsky. Hey! mr. anarcro-communist, why dont you give those millions to the potato growers commune you hypocritical twat!
Posted: 2003-09-15 07:19pm
by Joe
Chomsky's books are not cheap, I might add, especially for poor college students.
Posted: 2003-09-15 10:43pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I got 90. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Posted: 2003-09-15 10:47pm
by Joe
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I got 90. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
It means you're ready for induction into the VRWC.
*radios Mr. Liddy*
"We have another acolyte in need of reeducation. Prepare to intercept."
Posted: 2003-09-15 10:54pm
by Demiurge
I want that book, for nothing else but the humor factor. The proletariat shall rise again!
Posted: 2003-09-15 10:57pm
by Alex Moon
Out of curiosity, what School are you attending?
Posted: 2003-09-16 12:11am
by fgalkin
Alex Moon wrote:Out of curiosity, what School are you attending?
Hunter College of the City University of New York. But the professor is from Columbia.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-16 12:34am
by Uraniun235
Demiurge wrote:I want that book, for nothing else but the humor factor. The proletariat shall rise again!
Not if we eviscerate the proletariat first.
Posted: 2003-09-16 03:14am
by Edi
Most of the questions are black and white fallacies to start with, and if that's representative of the book as a whole, it's not worth the paper it's printed on.
Edi
Posted: 2003-09-16 03:39am
by neoolong
fgalkin wrote:Durran Korr wrote:Heh, I scored a 90.
I've scored a 30, and I have no idea what Einstein being a socialist has to do with critical thinking.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Seems like they're trying to say that since Einstein was smart, and Einstein was a socialist, that the intelligent choice is socialism. So it's the best system.
Posted: 2003-09-16 06:55am
by Col. Crackpot
Durran Korr wrote:Chomsky's books are not cheap, I might add, especially for poor college students.
Gotta love Noam. He makes millions of dollars selling his books in which he argues it is evil and wrong to make millions of dollars.
Posted: 2003-09-16 04:27pm
by fgalkin
Oh, and the author has openly said that we should do away with capitalism and turn to Marxism.
Oh, and when I asked the professor that shouldn't we have a book that demonstrates the opposite viewpoint, he said that it's going to be too much reading for the course.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-16 04:34pm
by Lord Pounder
I scored 20. I'm a capitalist cunt it seems.
Posted: 2003-09-16 04:36pm
by fgalkin
Lord Pounder wrote:I scored 20. I'm a capitalist cunt it seems.
No, you're a good Marxist. Low score=good.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Posted: 2003-09-16 04:37pm
by Lord Pounder
oh dear. I blame that weekend when i was entertaining some members of the Russian Maffia.