Comment by andybak
5 years ago
That last one is (maybe superficially) profound so I went looking for the source.
From a brief search I can't find anything sex-related (Only Anthony Bourdain talking about food wastage)
What are the chances this is a novel "thought"?
https://plagiarismdetector.net/ marks it as 100% plagiarized, albeit the source link is dead so I can't verify it.
Interestingly the other snippet - the one that appeared to be cribbed from a book review - is marked as plagiarized only to this thread :D
Does it make sense though? I don't see anything more profound than a logical contradiction.
Yes. The suggestion is that taboos exist as a way to fortify and perpetuate repressive hegemony.
I’m actually having more trouble parsing your second sentence than the sentence in question.
> I’m actually having more trouble parsing your second sentence than the sentence in question.
An easy shortcut to apparent wisdom is to juxtapose apparently contradictory statements, and let your audience seek the meaning within. The harder it is to find meaning, the wiser you appear -- but if it's clearly meaningless, you're exposed as a fool. (see what I did there?)
An example of true wisdom taking the same format, which is paraphrased from a Buddhist text: "a fool thinks he is wise, but a wise man knows that he is a fool". A.k.a the Dunning-Kreuger effect.