Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Yeah but it's the "academic gobbledy-gook" that annoys me. Wornout phrases, over the top terminology, all amounting to almost nothing - if you can remember any of it when you're finished. Wish I could send some of these pretentious "writers" back to my old composition teacher at TX A&M for a good takedown. BTW I find Twitter good practice at learning brevity...

paul

On 3/24/2014 10:29 AM, Dan Conine wrote:

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I know, right?
Am I the only one that sees an elaborate web page and thinks, "Well, there's another government grant to support a college graduate for a while." I don't mean just ag articles. I mean anything with the moniker of "science".

When was the last time you saw a polished article like that and thought, "Wow, that will be helpful in the garden/field." ?

Thanks for the cynical chuckle, Paul.

Here's the rabbit hole from Joe Bageant (RIP)
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/04/a_feral_dog_how.html:

"But the thinking classes' main job is to serve as intellectual hit men for the ruling elites, the business class, which doesn't come all that hard for them, having been all stamped out of the same dough on the Corporate system's university conveyor belt. Most are utterly convinced they are original and thinking for themselves, which in the university scheme of things means absorbing vast amounts of text, fermenting it in some sort of a second stomach and regurgitating it as a concentrated cud, supposedly unique because they alone coughed it up. The few who understand that this in no way resembles original thought usually keep mum, and keep their jobs in publishing or academia. Or flee screaming in despair once they figure out what is going on."

Dan C
Belgium, WI


On 3/24/2014 11:00 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

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Articles like this make me downright angry, like it was edited by a 
committee of politicians, then translated into "academic gobbledy-gook".
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/sustainable-agriculture-23562787

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