My husband, working on a Masters in History, is taking a course on History of Religion. He came across this sentence while reading The Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber:
Calvinism opposed organic social organization in the fiscal-monopolistic form which it assumed in Anglicanism under the Stuarts, especially in the conceptions of Laud, this alliance of Church and State with the monopolists on the basis of a Christian-social ethical foundation.
Oh, my poor hubby! I’m so glad I’m not in college any more!
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Huh? What does that sentence mean? Education shouldn’t be confusing.
Tee hee, I had a book on the problems of globalization that must have been written by the same type of person! It’s really more fun if you don’t have to understand it. Wouldn’t it be great to order fast food speaking this type of language? What do you think you’d get?!
I know this post is old, but I couldn’t help myself. When I was in my master’s program, I had as an instructor the President Emeritus of the university. Oy, was he a scary man! (We later went on to have a great relationship and he wrote me a wonderful recommendation for my doc program.) But anyway: The first day of every class he taught in our program (there were 3), he would cite this book and would ask, “How many of you have read Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?” and we would all look down, at the ceiling, at each other, at our cuticles. The universal body language for “Please, God, make me invisible now,” and then he would say, “No one? No. One. Oh, people. For shame. For shame.” And I would always wonder if I should read the damn thing. And now I can say with confidence, “No. Thank you, but no.”