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E-PrinceThere is a rather obnoxious quotation in the Frist Campus Center, by someone named Ricardo Luna, to the effect that, “It’s not just the campus memories that link us together. It’s the values we share.”
That’s false ...
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Surprisingly, Agreed.
What is the point of this column? And what was the point of being Margaret Sullivan up? The last nine paragraphs of this column don't have anything to do with the first three-- and they certainly don't make the point you raise at the beginning. Really low blows, Ms. Carroll.
good column. "very disappointed," did you read the column?
Brendan, stop being obtuse. The university does have values, just not your values. The university values the experience of honing one's mind in an intellectually "gladiatorial arena." This value is stronger than anything you can throw at it, just like a thick polycarbonate plate is stronger than a 2" diameter robotic saw.
Imagine, if you will, your values manifest in a Battlebot. Let a pneumatic hammer represent the diction of a bitter middle-aged man who reads Dilbert compilations. Let hydraulic jaws represent nostalgia for Millard Fillmore-era moral education. Let a pick axe represent the value of never actually starting things which you don't know how to start ("There are so many things that are objectionable about [...] Sullivan’s participation in it, that I’m not quite sure where to begin.") Let a kinetic flywheel represent obsessively focusing on your differences with everyone else and funneling this energy into confrontational tendencies (we're on the same page here).
At the individual skirmishes during the four-year showdown at the Princetorama tournament, your and everyone else's robots will start out weak and indefensible. However, if all goes according to plan, your robot of values will be strong enough to attract Skynet once you graduate. You see, not everyone else's robot is like your own. If your robot only fought clones of itself, you would not get much helpful feedback for future fortifications. However, in fighting other robots designed with radically different ideas, your robot will experience all sorts of new combat techniques (thinking and reasoning techniques). Your battlebot will be badly bruised, with maybe a screw or two missing, but the combat experience will enable you to redesign and refine your electronic module to make it an even more dangerous metal-twisting machine (an even smarter and more intellectually agile brain). Who knows, you might add a feature or two you hadn't even thought of before, like a flame thrower (like a Nietzschean critique of truth and value).
My point is, do keep writing columns like this, but keep tweaking that Battlebot to make it to the top. Maybe you'll meet Carmen Electra there, or even Bill Nye! Don't lament the fact that we don't mimic each other as much as we used to - but do be your own toughest critic, and do be your own battlebot's deadliest arena hazard.
agreed with the author, we do not al share values
well, i, for one, value become a drone; it's given me purpose.
"all hail Statist agendas"
I don't think the author made it clear enough whether he considers Diamong magazine to be pornographic or not
"the comments box at the Daily Princetonian is without doubt the most insipidly moronic corner of this University, so we need not take too much time assessing the pulse of the intellectually dead."
Hey! Come on here and say that!
If Princeton were a gladiatorial arena, it is as dead and silent as a historical relic - where are the gladiators?
I don't hear clashes, I can't see the gladiators, but a lot of careful and cautious spectators waiting for some heroes to come forth and tell us what's wrong about the world, and when the brave few do come forth (Anscombe being no small example), the audience feels amused and entertained. After being entertained, they leave, forget about it, and go home.
This is especially frustrating since we have so much resources at our hands to make heroes who could change history!
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