..seldom differ
Two blogs I read this morning are on the same subject...
Crumb Trail
Dawkins's Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity. Theoretical physics is a genuinely difficult subject. Envious disciplines, which I shall not advertise, conceal their lack of content behind billowing clouds of deliberate obscurity,..
And Kim du Toit puts it it slightly more robust language:
Parsing The Bullshit
During a Political Science course at university, I was often at war with one particular professor (Alfred Stadler, for those who remember the poxy Leninist bastard) because during lectures I would constantly stop him to say: "Please could you re-state that in English?"
The first time I said that, he replied that maybe I was in the wrong course, and that I should be taking English instead.
My response was that maybe he was in the wrong place, in that his job was to teach me political science, and not concepta ignota. (I always knew that Latin would come in handy, and the exchange was all the sweeter because he didn't know what I was saying -- "ignota" means obscure).
- My motto entirely, if I don't understand what you are talking about it is your fault not mine, and post-modernist deconstructurism bullshit falls squarely into that category.