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Wow. Personally, I can't think of anything better to do.

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.

I meant that in the sense of "spending thousands of dollars and months of one's life to take a course that revels in incomprehensibility and subjectivity, leavened with stereotypical calls to abandon rationality in a manner eerily reminiscent of a random scene from an Ayn Rand book"

It's just that, good lord, who of us would choose a course like that over a real class?

I think people are voting you down because they think you're talking about the guy who WROTE the book, not the author of the article. That's what I thought...

That said I think everyone who goes to college has a few humanities requirements, liberal arts major or not. A class with this book in it would have been much cooler than most of the classes I took, humanities or otherwise.

If this were reverse engineering of some obscure long out of use protocol it would be heralded as great hacking/fascinating detective work/interesting puzzle.