And Chest-Puffing Ensued
Time, I think, to dip a toe in the world of academia. Specifically, some lively rumblings on the relative importance of electricians and sociology lecturers. I suppose you could start here, with this, but there are plenty of tangents and pith, and moments of slightly comical indignation.
Among those moments, this one:
Societies lived without electricity for millennia. Some still do. Don’t give me this shit.
By contrast, societies have ALWAYS needed individuals to assess their societal needs and propose solutions.
That by nature is The Sociologist. https://t.co/A0xifaYrXW
— Tim Gill (@timgill924) July 22, 2025
You see, Dr Tim Gill, our associate professor, is “an authority on society and everything in it.” Being an “intellectual,” he can “diagnose entire societies.” And then issue instructions to people of less importance.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye, and so forth.
A data point, I suppose.
🤦🏻♂️
But he didn’t see the pushback coming…
It does rather suggest a gap in his model of the world.
At one point, Dr Gill boasts of never having used a lawn mower. Because apparently that’s a credential.
Dr Gill’s capacity for self-flattery reminded me of a certain professor of philosophy.
🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
Laughed, not sorry.
Okay, that was funny. I suspect that Dr Gill, our Understander Of All The Things, is going to end the day a little… bruised.
Still, you’ve almost got to admire the imperviousness of someone who responds to accusations of being arrogant and haughty and unmoored from reality by being arrogant and haughty and unmoored from reality.
He thinks he’s a shaman.
Diagnostic for NPD, right there.
“Sociology professor here” has got to be the world’s worst flex.
Lecturing in sociology. It’s the fourth emergency service.
Beloved Sister-In-Law #1 spent many years working in admin at the local university. She told me the hardest part of the job was dealing with the egos and status insecurities of certain lecturers. Many of whom felt a need to pointedly look down on mere administrators.
She wasn’t talking about lecturers in maths or physics, you’ll be shocked to hear.
Let’s put “Dr” Gill in change, then, obviously.
How convenient.
We can all see the nature of *this* sociologist.
Tim Gill respectfully mentions fabulist Michel Foucault. Huh.
Speaking of fabulists: The entire field of sociology has been largely taken over by the left, blocking the entry of non-leftists and the publication of non-leftist findings.
Previously in the world of the social sciences.
It’s a place where mysteries abound. And require much funding.
I wonder if Tim Gill has lunch regularly with a fellow prof, Patrick Grzanka, who was rightfully called out by Matt Walsh in “What Is a Woman?”
Even a more red-blooded institution like the University of Tennessee will have these types. Someone has to have the easy courses to offer the guys playing on football scholarships*. Go Vols!
Strong ‘B Ark’ vibes with this one.
Now I want to go over to campus and find this “doctor.”
It must be quite strange to be rendered indignant by something – assumptions about a field, its standards, and the kinds of people it attracts – that your own indignant replies are pretty much confirming.
Previously in the world of the social sciences.
From that post:
Pacific Palisades has entered the chat.
By contrast, societies have ALWAYS needed individuals to assess their societal needs and propose solutions.
Too true, the fall of the Roman Empire can be directly traced to their not having a sociologist.
Meanwhile, the best review: