the bst + the brytest

So, like, this one chick dude is all,"College students don't read books anymore." And then all these other people get all, like, whatever, 'cause of they say that college students weren't reading in, like, the old days. Even in, I don't know, like the 1960s or something, when the hippies and stuff.

But like the chick dude who said how college students weren't reading? She He all like referenced this one book review thing in this magazine or whatever called Newsweek, and said how this one chick from like Princeton was all, like,"This book sucks, I didn't read it" or something.

And so I like looked at that book review thing, and I went all, like, wow, 'cause it's totally just, you know, amazing and stuff -- a total like picture of what a college education is totally like worth, now.

In a June 17 book not-quite-review, 2010 Princeton grad Isia Jasiewicz set out to explain two books in one outing, linking Glenn Beck's The Overton Window to F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Wonderfully, Jasiewicz explains the deep obscurity of this Hayek person by pointing out that he wrote stuff that was real, like, long and stuff:

"In other words, The Road to Serfdom is a treatise on libertarianism, well-known only in academic circles or among political theory wonks stalwart enough to wade through the 60-page introduction and chapters on 'Planning and the Rule of Law' and 'The Prospects of International Order.'"

Dude, for some reason? People like buy this book and stuff -- even though parts of it are sixty pages long!

Just imagine being"stalwart" enough to"wade through" a sixty-page part of a book, ladies and gentlemen. It is unimaginable, like space flight in an old Volkswagen. Physics will not allow it.

Having woven her analysis of these two books together for an entire six paragraphs -- one more than the standard five-paragraph essay, such a long thing 2 rite! -- Jasiewicz notes at the end that she gave Beck's book the old college try:"But I stopped reading at page 10..."

In fairness, you have to give this recent graduate of the nation's top university credit for making the effort to engage with antiquity. The Road to Serfdom is an old, old book -- written, Jasiewicz notes,"in the immediate aftermath of World War II."

Which is why it was published in 1944.