On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > Much as I love you, Cheeni, I'm not going to watch this.
What fascinates me is this: the speaker and her listeners are clearly educated (maybe a little too much, they have the air of people who have only hung around in college campuses) and intelligent - but there's so much intellectual wanking and preening going on (or so it appears to me), and yet everyone seems to think the talk was fantastic. What did they get out of the talk that I didn't? Or more generally, I come across the Bengali (it is usually a Bengali) literary critic / thinker who spouts incomprehensible sentences such as "homeopathy of self abstraction" and I think to myself - what a wanker. I'm perhaps wrong because these are clearly educated and intelligent people who however seem to be members of a mutual admiration society. Do they actually get anything done? Wouldn't they get more stuff done if they didn't speak in incomprehensible tongues? Cheeni
