Sic Semper Tyrannis

The Academic

I worry that his knowledge will not save him. (Not in the Billy Graham “save him” way, but in the “here’s a guy who is doomed to be miserable for the rest of his life” kind of way.)

With much knowledge comes much sorrow. He will be running around chasing contradictory theories and bigger and bigger words and –isms like a puppy for the rest of his days.

And most sad, over time, he will drive away all acquaintances and friends, alerting them to their fallacies and emotionalism in conversation, and most likely he will live a hermetic life, hunched over stacks of dusty books in a drafty apartment like some Dickens character. And then he will die alone, the unknown knower.

posted by Mike @ 8:13 AM