Has anyone ever actually attended one of these Cooper Union "debates"?
If you think that upper west siders are ugly, you have got to see this. The room is filled with angry smelly old leftists with an admixture of paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorists. The stage is populated with puffed up pseudo-intellectuals who prattle on endlessly and incoherently. It is actually amusing, in a sad sort of way, when one of the "debaters" engages one of the under-medicated patients in the crowd, not realizing one is pissing in the wind when arguing with a psychotic. If someone who is actually cogent ever takes the stage, which is a rarity, they quickly realize they have erred badly. After all, one must never wrestle with a pig since you will both get filthy and the pig will enjoy it.
Has anyone ever actually attended one of these Cooper Union "debates"?
If you think that upper west siders are ugly, you have got to see this. The room is filled with angry smelly old leftists with an admixture of paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorists. The stage is populated with puffed up pseudo-intellectuals who prattle on endlessly and incoherently. It is actually amusing, in a sad sort of way, when one of the "debaters" engages one of the under-medicated patients in the crowd, not realizing one is pissing in the wind when arguing with a psychotic. If someone who is actually cogent ever takes the stage, which is a rarity, they quickly realize they have erred badly. After all, one must never wrestle with a pig since you will both get filthy and the pig will enjoy it.