Putting aside the fumes of smug self-satisfaction which shimmer over the audience, not mentioning the vacuous imbecilities regurgitated by most of the liberal arts talks, not even considering the $6000 seat price for attending this precious wankfest: sometimes, the “science” is often so unbearably bad as to defy parody. What am I talking about? Well, here’s some crank making perpetual motion machine and unified field theory claims at a TEDx conference. His lecture makes absolutely no sense; it is a schizoid word-salad of vaguely virtuous sounding quasi-technical phrases. The audience, gawdblessem, claps:
( Hat tip to Carl Zimmer for this stinker.)
Anyone who would clap for this ambulatory dildo after his 10 minute display of early onset dementia would clap for just about anything, no matter how breathtakingly stupid, wretched or disgusting.
The inchoate chattering is that of the managerial upper middle classes giving each other sloppy wet tongue…
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