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sounds_sound  ·  3587 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Landscape Urbanism Bullshit Generator

Ha. I thought of you when I posted this. I'm sure you run across it often.





veen  ·  3587 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Had an entire course in this kind of language. I'm kind of used to it by now. Here, let me open random pages of the course book (written by the professor, because of course it is) and pick some sentences for you:

This interpretation is based on object-oriented observations and intersubjective interaction.

Opposite of goal maximizing of simple issues we find the optimalization of the policymaking process.

Communicative rationality has little to do with the logic-positivistic school of thought, from which the functional rationality stems.

mk  ·  3587 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Opposite of goal maximizing of simple issues we find the optimalization of the policymaking process.

I'm having a difficult time trying to make sense of this.

I am not sure how a simple issue can be maximized. But if it were, would optimizing the process of policy-making run counter to the effort?

I would not rely upon it.

veen  ·  3586 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What I think he meant was that focusing on the goal in simple issues is counterproductive if you want to optimize the policy-making process. The book is well over 200 pages, so I usually just skipped the cryptic paragraphs like that one.

ecib  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why communicate knowledge when you can obfuscate it...