Difference between revisions of "Rhetorical Phrases"
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| + | Why not be condescending? Professors are always having trouble with college administrators who because they have a big salary, and a fancy title like "Provost and Vice President", think they are better than mere scholars. | ||
"I've always said the most useful part of game theory is just describing Players, Actions, and Payoffs. Now I'm wondering whether it might be just the idea of putting yourself in someone else's place. I was just talking with people today about a situation where most observers don't know them personally but do know someone on on the other side, so they'll be blamed whether they deserve it or not." | "I've always said the most useful part of game theory is just describing Players, Actions, and Payoffs. Now I'm wondering whether it might be just the idea of putting yourself in someone else's place. I was just talking with people today about a situation where most observers don't know them personally but do know someone on on the other side, so they'll be blamed whether they deserve it or not." | ||
Revision as of 13:38, 1 February 2021
This is for potentially useful phrases.
"Epater les wokesoisie"
Why not be condescending? Professors are always having trouble with college administrators who because they have a big salary, and a fancy title like "Provost and Vice President", think they are better than mere scholars.
"I've always said the most useful part of game theory is just describing Players, Actions, and Payoffs. Now I'm wondering whether it might be just the idea of putting yourself in someone else's place. I was just talking with people today about a situation where most observers don't know them personally but do know someone on on the other side, so they'll be blamed whether they deserve it or not."
"Bubblehead: A member of the Liberal Establishment who is trapped within the New York Times echo chamber, unable to conceive that people in other times and places could disagree with him unless they were evil, unable to read Limbaugh, Churchill, Plato, or a calculus text without mental anguish."
We who are canaries in the coal mine should perhaps "sing like a canary".
