jeneralize

It annoys me that Monty Python is a pervasive social reference in my head. Nothing against Monty Python; god knows, they’ve made me laugh to the point of apoplexy many times. But now I can’t use the phrase “the means of production” without the image of Karl Marx on a game-show panel popping into my head. In my Saturday morning “Philosophy Lite” course yesterday, the mention of “Emmanual Kant” made me have to turn a giggle into a cough. (It is not cool to laugh at the name “Emmanual Kant” during a philosophy lecture.)

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