> "Atheist Chaplain" cia.gov> wrote in news:g898m0$3hs$1@aioe.org:

>> what's the PhD in if I may be so bold (inveterate busy body here) :-)

>
> Organizational theory (nothing very real-world). A contemporary
> application of Jean-Francois Lyotard's 'differend' theory, Mikhail
> Bakhtin's 'carnivalesque' (think the resistance to authority side
> of medieval carnival) and assorted to-be-determined theories of
> resistance in organizations. The little guy pushing back against
> The Man. Think The Chasers War on Everything as a good contemporary
> example, along with the games that go on in blue-collar workplaces,
> in soft-porn magazines like The Picture and People Magazine, the
> street protests at events like APEC conference, and of course all
> the stuff that goes on on the Internet. The theoretical stuff is
> relatively easy. The hard part is doing work that has some legitimacy
> in the eyes of the people whose opinions I care about - the guys I
> went to school with, the people who work on the farms and in the
> workshops where I started out (before I became poofter-softhands),
> and the denizens of the likes of aus.aviation and aus.motorcycles.
> Those people almost certainly think that what I'm doing now is an
> unmitigated load of shit. That's the real challenge! Academics are
> relatively naive, usually incompetent (always socially so, and
> usually professionally as well) and very gullible: it's EASY to
> gain acceptance with them, the standards for what constitutes
> "good work" in academia are disturbingly low in my observation.
> The real people (non-academics) are the ones with the finely
> tuned bullshit detectors, and they're a lot harder to convince!
>
>
> That's the long version. The short version is:
>
> "Oh, nothing much. Just some stuff about The Chaser boys, pubs
> and porn. Wannanotherbeer?".
>
>
> GB
> --
> My friend Steve is an atheist. He has a bumper sticker that reads "Honk
> if you love Jesus". When someone honks, he gives them the finger.