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chrxiao's review
5.0
(read this for gov 1023 because apparently i no longer read for fun. someday. hopefully soon) my guy begins this book saying he's not a satirist. but this is some clever & pointed stuff! i guess the non-satirical nature is the lack of exaggeration in which case: sometimes the satire was the real life we observed along the way.
this is about politics in academia, so there's some specific stuff about that which is familiar, relevant, and overall quite funny as someone who goes to ~ivory tower~ school, and also makes me intrigued to see how this gets connected to the course as a whole bc i assume there's differences in governments of universities and e.g. governments of nations. particularly liked the section on professors writing books (Don't) and implicitly how snobby academia and teaching is.
also, so many good definitions — good in terms of cleverness and also just straight up putting names to familiar phenomena e.g. principle of the wedge. there's a very specific picture being presented here, in the way that sometimes hypotheticals and generalizations give you a better understanding than long-term observation.
there is some stuff that i am just not 1900s enough to understand (misogyny + wtf is belling a cat) but i did learn the word bugbear which is really good & i will be bringing that one back.
this is about politics in academia, so there's some specific stuff about that which is familiar, relevant, and overall quite funny as someone who goes to ~ivory tower~ school, and also makes me intrigued to see how this gets connected to the course as a whole bc i assume there's differences in governments of universities and e.g. governments of nations. particularly liked the section on professors writing books (Don't) and implicitly how snobby academia and teaching is.
also, so many good definitions — good in terms of cleverness and also just straight up putting names to familiar phenomena e.g. principle of the wedge. there's a very specific picture being presented here, in the way that sometimes hypotheticals and generalizations give you a better understanding than long-term observation.
there is some stuff that i am just not 1900s enough to understand (misogyny + wtf is belling a cat) but i did learn the word bugbear which is really good & i will be bringing that one back.
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