You *know* there's never anything that wouldn't be coming out of the mouth of a first-year pseudo-intellectual philosophy student argument when he's using the pontificating icon. Even when he might be saying something interesting and thoughtful, the pontificating icon means it's been cleverly disguised.
(Which is not to say it's not worth pointing out the platitudes and assumptions. It's just to say that it *is* the pontificating icon, and noting what that heralds.)
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Date: 2007-06-05 05:13 pm (UTC)You *know* there's never anything that wouldn't be coming out of the mouth of a first-year pseudo-intellectual philosophy student argument when he's using the pontificating icon. Even when he might be saying something interesting and thoughtful, the pontificating icon means it's been cleverly disguised.
(Which is not to say it's not worth pointing out the platitudes and assumptions. It's just to say that it *is* the pontificating icon, and noting what that heralds.)
(...*damn*, I am in an unforgiving mood today.)