Date: June 8th, 2014 8:48 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
Brothers, I am just a humble observer, not fit to set the terms of your scholarly contest. But if the competition does occur, I will weave the narrative of its fandom, spreading through the scholarly city, the anticipation heating the hearts of philosophers through the sunlit days of summer. Your work will enter the time-fabric of the shitbort, recalled in years to come in whispered breaths and wistful glances -- "Once, long ago, scholars walked these halls. In their contest, their words were made eternal, their thoughts still celebrated to this day."
Date: June 8th, 2014 9:20 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
Brother, I'm concerned that, by your own description, your more practically-oriented contribution to the discourse, however, trenchant it might be, might not suit the more lofty, white-tower-heights of this particular competition. My brothers are of course free to disagree.
Date: June 8th, 2014 9:33 PM Author: Fishy psychic
*shrug*
I actually can write about things more abstract, but again, it would have to be more focused on politics, economics or statistics/human knowledge because otherwise I would most likely be uninterested.
Date: June 8th, 2014 9:37 PM Author: NeumannMorgenste
Brother, it sounds like you'd be really strong in a sort of policy / analysis competition. E.g., the sort of written policy debates you see over at Foreign Affairs or the Economist (as well as, in more rare air, think-tank settings) from time to time. (I'm not, God-forbid, advocating the running, back-and-forth ideological warfare threading that clogs up the shitbort weekday mornings -- I mean something much more formal than that.) There's no reason we couldn't organize one of those too, after this little grand affair takes place. I bet it'd get good attention and interest.