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sabotabbyQuestion post is here. IP logging is still off.
Okay, here are some that I think are okay to answer in a public post.
Are you bi?
I'm almost exclusively attracted to male-identified people and I've never had sex with another woman, so I don't consider myself bi. However, my view of human sexuality—or at least my view of my own sexuality—is fluid enough that I don't think me falling for and/or sleeping with a woman is outside the realm of possibility or would shake my sense of who I am.
what should i do with my liiiiife?
I want you in my revolutionary government (which I am not leading, incidentally; I'm Minister of Re-Education). You can choose your post after the revolution, but in the meantime, you should be preparing for that eventuality.
OKAY -- HOW ARE BABIES MADE!?!
Explanation here.
ALSO HAVE YOU EVER SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED WORSHIPPING SATAN
I read the Satanic Bible when I was 14 and it pretty much seemed like someone had taken the Christian Bible and done a search and replace on the names. I don't know if that counts as "serious consideration" or not.
Why do you hate freedom?
You'll understand if you ever have to teach a class full of 13- and 14-year-old boys. Freedom is vastly overrated.
What is more dangerous? A crazed person with a gun, or a regressive intellectual with a pen? Why? How should each be dealt with?
Christopher Hitchens should be mocked ruthlessly, waterboarded (again), and then forced to endure months of self-criticism and hard labour.
HOW THE FUCK DO I STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS ELECTION?
IT IS DRIVING ME MAAAAAD.
Get a job as a high school teacher, and/or stumble upon a cache of frequently updated Watchmen porn. Both of these things will suck up your time and mental energy. Obsessing over the Large Hadron Collider also helps.
Oh, I have another question: if you were going to teach a course on the history of various ideas within radical politics, is there a textbook you'd work from? I suspect we may have to do this.
I'm unfamiliar with a decent textbook on the subject. I suspect that you'd be better off with a course reader, much as I hate the damned things. Another thing you might do, since there's so much good stuff in the public domain (marxists.org is especially wonderful) is have your course reader online to save on paper and printing costs.
What do you think of Sarah Palin weaing an Israeli flag pin at her RNC speech?
I'm pretty sure it's obligatory in order to get elected in the U.S. You could probably get away with not wearing an American flag pin, but if she went through the entire election without at least once donning the Israeli colours, she'd end up getting called bin Palin or something. Also, I suspect she's an anti-Semite so she's overcompensating.
Will we all die if McCain wins?
No. Just a lot of poor brown people will die, and probably people like us. Even in the end of Dr. Strangelove, the rich white folks made it out okay.
If you could design your ideal course to teach, what would it be?
I think it would be about propaganda, the arts, and pop culture, and how they have been and can be harnessed for subversive or revolutionary purposes. Half of the class would be theory, the rest hands-on studio work.
What's a question you'd really like to be asked but never have been?
Believe it or not, no one has ever asked for my thoughts on yaoi.
Okay, here are some that I think are okay to answer in a public post.
Are you bi?
I'm almost exclusively attracted to male-identified people and I've never had sex with another woman, so I don't consider myself bi. However, my view of human sexuality—or at least my view of my own sexuality—is fluid enough that I don't think me falling for and/or sleeping with a woman is outside the realm of possibility or would shake my sense of who I am.
what should i do with my liiiiife?
I want you in my revolutionary government (which I am not leading, incidentally; I'm Minister of Re-Education). You can choose your post after the revolution, but in the meantime, you should be preparing for that eventuality.
OKAY -- HOW ARE BABIES MADE!?!
Explanation here.
ALSO HAVE YOU EVER SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED WORSHIPPING SATAN
I read the Satanic Bible when I was 14 and it pretty much seemed like someone had taken the Christian Bible and done a search and replace on the names. I don't know if that counts as "serious consideration" or not.
Why do you hate freedom?
You'll understand if you ever have to teach a class full of 13- and 14-year-old boys. Freedom is vastly overrated.
What is more dangerous? A crazed person with a gun, or a regressive intellectual with a pen? Why? How should each be dealt with?
Christopher Hitchens should be mocked ruthlessly, waterboarded (again), and then forced to endure months of self-criticism and hard labour.
HOW THE FUCK DO I STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS ELECTION?
IT IS DRIVING ME MAAAAAD.
Get a job as a high school teacher, and/or stumble upon a cache of frequently updated Watchmen porn. Both of these things will suck up your time and mental energy. Obsessing over the Large Hadron Collider also helps.
Oh, I have another question: if you were going to teach a course on the history of various ideas within radical politics, is there a textbook you'd work from? I suspect we may have to do this.
I'm unfamiliar with a decent textbook on the subject. I suspect that you'd be better off with a course reader, much as I hate the damned things. Another thing you might do, since there's so much good stuff in the public domain (marxists.org is especially wonderful) is have your course reader online to save on paper and printing costs.
What do you think of Sarah Palin weaing an Israeli flag pin at her RNC speech?
I'm pretty sure it's obligatory in order to get elected in the U.S. You could probably get away with not wearing an American flag pin, but if she went through the entire election without at least once donning the Israeli colours, she'd end up getting called bin Palin or something. Also, I suspect she's an anti-Semite so she's overcompensating.
Will we all die if McCain wins?
No. Just a lot of poor brown people will die, and probably people like us. Even in the end of Dr. Strangelove, the rich white folks made it out okay.
If you could design your ideal course to teach, what would it be?
I think it would be about propaganda, the arts, and pop culture, and how they have been and can be harnessed for subversive or revolutionary purposes. Half of the class would be theory, the rest hands-on studio work.
What's a question you'd really like to be asked but never have been?
Believe it or not, no one has ever asked for my thoughts on yaoi.
