We should lobby our legislatures to pass laws to the effect that faculty assemblies must meet in public — or better yet in pet stores. Or at the water reclamation facility.
Faculty assemblies suffer from a limited vocabulary. But it seems to me that they have not heeded the most famous Wittgensteinian sentence: “That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.”
With their minimal lexicons they try to pronounce on everything. If only they remained silent!
The Orthosphere 
And yet, if I laugh at faculty like the audience laughs at those birds, I’m the one who’s strange.
We should lobby our legislatures to pass laws to the effect that faculty assemblies must meet in public — or better yet in pet stores. Or at the water reclamation facility.
The dangers of wetting your beaks with too much Wittgenstein.
Faculty assemblies suffer from a limited vocabulary. But it seems to me that they have not heeded the most famous Wittgensteinian sentence: “That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.”
With their minimal lexicons they try to pronounce on everything. If only they remained silent!
Thank you for this. I can’t imagine a more apt illustration of so many faculty meetings I’ve had to endure.
I can imagine. On the other hand, the cockatoos have handsomer plumage than the professors.
And they don’t despise the hand that feeds them.
Another parallel: those inarticulate beaks can inflict tremendous damage.