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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

I am an ARTS Student!


I've just finished reading the Chanson de Roland and have no mood for Shakespeare's Henry V just yet. Interestingly, I 'look' like a science student, as a classmate remarked one day. It created quite a furore on facebook. I've written the following piece of nonsensical dribble to demonstrate my academic grounding in the arts and social sciences. Don't take it seriously - it's an improvised rant that should prove entertaining for the informed audience...

Rene Descartes: "I think, therefore I doubt, therefore I am" (the real quote)

Immanuel Kant: "An analytic statement"

Karl Marx: "He's oppressed"

Sigmund Freud: "He's repressed"

Edward Said: "He's 'Occidentalised'"

Ludwig Wittgenstein: "You're all talking nonsense - "he's" my Beetle"

Erving Goffman: "Descarte's posing a dramatic identity"

William Shakespeare: "All the world's a Goffman"

Edward Carr: "Is his history of accepted judgements?"

Robin Collingwood: "No, it's about Great Men"

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Yes! They have the will to power!"

Mao Zedong: "Does it grow out of the barrel of a gun?"

Michael Foucault: "It's power-knowledge, the politics of discourse define knowledge!"

Lee Kuan Yew: "I aim to be correct, not politically correct! You should too!"

Peter Winch: "You're all ethnocentric"

Jeremy Bentham: "Then let's reform everyone in my Panopticon"

John Mill: "As long as it's utilitarian..."

Deng Xiaoping: "Yea, it doesn't matter it the cat is black or white as long as it catches the rat"

John Locke: "No! He's got the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Thomas Hobbes: "Only if the Leviathan approves"

George Orwell: "But freedom is slavery, at least in 1984"

Jean Rousseau: "You civil savages"

Albert Camus: "Fellow monsieur, Sisyphus is more interesting than you"

Francis Bacon: "Settle it with the scientific method: by far the best proof is experience"

Thomas Kuhn: "But observation is theory-laden"

Karl Popper: "I'll falsify that!"


Ambrose Bierce: "Harangue: A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang"

Emile Durkheim: "But each has a Function in society"

Adam Smith: "Yes, individual pursuit for the common good."

Winston Churchill: "Nevar waas soul mulch owed buy so many twoo so few"

Aldous Huxley: "But we need functionalism for a brave new world"

Plato: "I'll hide in my cave until your ideas take Form"

Ben: "Damn I've run out of wine"


I have a SCIENCE STUDENT LOOK!?!?

Yesterday at 15:17 via iPhone ·  ·  · 

  • ChinyiAnandhiHan and 3 others like this.
    • Ilya actually you kinda do, ben.
      Yesterday at 15:24 · 
    • Min Hahaha I don't think so...I think you still have the KI look :)
      Yesterday at 15:27 ·  ·  1 person

    • Benjamin ‎:O D': No wonder I have better luck with science girls...
      Yesterday at 15:40 · 
    • Kristie actually .....you kinda do......Yesterday at 16:35 · 
    • Kaoru Hahaha!! I think so!:)
      Yesterday at 17:00 · 
    • Benjamin Garr... All the girls concur! Oh no! I need a makeover! :'(

      COUZ! Help!

      Yesterday at 17:10 · 
    • Lin dude... people say i have the art student look... and I am now!
      Yesterday at 19:01 · 
    • Benjamin LOL! So am I... But it doesn't 'look' like it D:
      Yesterday at 19:04 · 
    • Min No I didn't concur! And I'm a girl! :P
      23 hours ago · 
    • Benjamin Hahahas! ReAlLy Min? :PP
      23 hours ago · 
    • Min Wait...what are you referring to? The girl part or the concuring part?! :PP I AM 100% female! xD
      23 hours ago · 
    • Benjamin HAHHAS! Yep, I concur! ;D
      23 hours ago ·  ·  1 person
    • Min LOL Ben, LOL...!!! ;D Hahaha....!!!!
      23 hours ago · 
    • Bliss Concur. :P
      21 hours ago · 
    • Benjamin ‎(bliss won't get aussie chocolates this time)
      21 hours ago · 
    • Ajani Hah, poor Ben. ;)
      17 hours ago · 
    • Han totally
      17 hours ago · 
    • Zen 'Vortex' What's wrong with a science student look? As long as you ain't got a science student body XD
      15 hours ago · 
    • Benjamin There's a science student body now? O-0?
      12 hours ago · 

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