Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Hitchens vs. Boteach

א באװאוסטער שטיק דרעק װער פֿיהרט אָהן דעם שילשול מיטן פֿעדער-נאָהמען "פֿארפאָללענע מעסײע" ברענגט אַ שטיקעלע ויכוח דערהערט אױף 92-שטראַססע צװישן צװײ באנדיטען שמוליק בוטח און קריסטען-פוהרער היטטשינס

שני תאַומים בביטניך - די אײן אײנציגע רעזולטאַט װאָס אַן אינטעללעקטואַליסט קען אַרױסנעהמען פֿון דעם איז דער חורבן נורא װאס קומט פאָר װען שמאָלער מוחות הײבן אָהן צו פֿירען טיש

Mr. Boteach has to pick his fights, simple as that. Hitchens is a primitive populist and his arguments are by good margin straw men and otherwise pre-structured fallacies; fighting him on his tilted ground is a losing proposition. Ever more so when you have no academic background of any sorts and you're used to explaining things using your fingers with the usual methods of tzwei pritopes - drei prichlopes. Frankly, intellectually dishonest academics are a hallmark of our age, give or take hundred years, and it makes the horizon look ever so dull and hopeless. Even a true luminary such as Bertrand Russell was an dishonest man when it came to giving credit to the "Old Testament", as is well known to those who read his biography. But Bertrand Russell left a scientific legacy worth pondering, which is not the case with today's gentlemen of Hitchensian or even Allan Nadler's "circle". Such are the fruits of elitist commercialized education, the epitome of hypocrisy.

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