This article from the yale daily news makes sweeping comparisons between the players in the Iraq crisis and the characters from "The O.C."
Note at the end there's a line: "This was originally written as an Amstud paper."
Choice excerpt: "The object of America's affection, Iraq, is Marissa Cooper. For a while, Iraq was stable, at least on the surface. But once she was penetrated by America, everything exploded. Now Iraq is a complete whack job, making everyone and everything around her unstable. She feels that her mom, France, didn't do enough to protect her. The only person who has been by her side this whole time is America, although he is fed up with her antics."
This is why people graduate from places like yale thinking they're so g-damn smart, because professors let them get away with cockamamie stuff like this! It's enough to turn me into a campus conservative.
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2 comments:
You know, initially I had the same response you did to this article. But then I had to take a step back and remind myself that the guy who wrote it is still an undergrad, maybe not even 20 years old yet. And besides it being pretty silly (and in my personal opinion not really funny, but I don't watch the OC), at least he was taking a stab at looking at a serious topic from a different angle. More importatnly the article shows that he was actually thinking about IR in a way that makes sense to him and that since his approach was so weird it probably means he was talking about it with other people.
Yeah, I think I can believe that it's a good idea to take a stab at a serious topic from a different angle, but only if you've already figured out how to look at it from a serious angle, which it's unclear to me from this that he has. Maybe the more serious stuff got edited out for publication in the YDN?
I also am annoyed that American Studies is somehow seen as a repository for these not-too-rigorous, kind of "fun" analyses, whereas he would never have probably dared to hand this in in a polisci context.
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