You know up to college I thought of myself as more STEM than humanities-oriented. I guess the freshman introductory sequences of Chemistry (as the gateway to premed, I suppose) and Computer Science (to the NSA) did their jobs of dissuading me; I realized that from a programming standpoint the interesting thing about Final Fantasy III was the compression and I didn’t really find that interesting at all. As is I only got up to series & sequences and limits approaching infinity in AP Calculus BC and my mind was straining at them, but then it once strained at long division.

The post— eh. I certainly remember being irritated at Michel Foucault’s historical flights, of “this one anecdote, and then this other one from a century later in a different context several countries away, therefore the true nature of power and society”.

Also, like I said, coming from a clan of lawyers, the notion of verbally-focused elites just doesn’t feel inherently illegitimate to me.