kids used to have to memorize things like Lincolns second inaugural address in Child prison and while i oppose the whole caboodle on principle it was a pity they cut that part of the curriculum specifically
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Replying to @eigenrobot
if they made them read War and Peace instead we’d be on mars by now.
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Replying to @Westphalite @eigenrobot
no, we'd be living in poorly-staffed anarchistic communes propped up by autocracy and royalties, fending off armies of scribes and wincing through occasional bouts of recurrent syphilis
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Replying to @swimming_blerd @eigenrobot
I mean it’s that orpic.twitter.com/9mCp49i8uI
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Replying to @Westphalite @eigenrobot
just the way he said that, "...which I'm sure most Americans have read," (beat) tells me at some point he was a teacher but for real, blame phil of ed
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Replying to @swimming_blerd @eigenrobot
Khatami assuming all Americans have a survey knowledge of 19th century French philosophy makes me feel that we are being overestimated by our rivals.
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Replying to @Westphalite @eigenrobot
he wasn't, he was just being a dick which is hilarious
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