Sam Harris: Machismo Braggadocio

@Eddie Braverman" turned me on to the Sam Harris podcast, and so far it has been fantastic.

If you're unfamiliar with Sam, he's a public intellectual with degrees in philosophy and neuroscience from Stanford and UCLA, respectively. Clearly a brilliant guy - dude pals around with guys like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil (check out this video

on the future of artificial intelligence if you've got the time) - he gives off a cult leader vibe.

In his most recent podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-8wthSGy0, Sam interviews one of the worlds top genetic scientists/engineers. Again, if you've got the time, it's incredibly interesting.

But that's not what this post is about.

In the first five minutes, Sam reads a few passages from a fake academic journal article titled: "THE CONCEPTUAL PENIS AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT."

Let me repeat that title: THE CONCEPTUAL PENIS AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

Here are some passages from the article:

"Thus, the isomorphism between the conceptual penis and what’s referred to throughout discursive feminist literature as “toxic hypermasculinity,” is one defined upon a vector of male cultural machismo braggadocio, with the conceptual penis playing the roles of subject, object, and verb of action. The result of this trichotomy of roles is to place hypermasculine men both within and outside of competing discourses whose dynamics, as seen via post-structuralist discourse analysis, enact a systematic interplay of power in which hypermasculine men use the conceptual penis to move themselves from powerless subject positions to powerful ones (confer: Foucault, 1972)."

"At best, climate change is genuinely an example of hyper-patriarchal society metaphorically manspreading into the global ecosystem."

http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis…

The best part? Writers at liberal rags like Salon and Jezebel are taking it seriously!

I'll leave a bit of research to you, but it's by far the best troll since David Sacks punked Jeff Bezos publicly on Twitter.