At
Salon.com, Tom Lutz,
reporting back on the ongoing range war between writers and theorists in English Literature, notes in passing that the linguistic/analytic tools of contemporary literary criticism have been seeping into nonacademic conversation for some time now:
These days even Tucker Carlson uses "deconstruct" and George W. Bush has developed quite a fondness for "ideology."
The
same point was made, in surprisingly similar fashion, in 1988:
Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.
Okay, everyone, back to your work.
1 comment:
that whole series of "don't call me stupid" lines from Jamie Lee are classic. Great film. I knew immediately where the headline came from.
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