Maggie's Farm

In my experience in post grad lit classes, I found that most practitioners of critical theory are pretty uncritical of anything, as long as you dress it up in really long words, really long sentences, and tendentious leftist rhetoric of precisely the right tone. I'd call critical theory an enormous wankfest, but that would imply that the practitioners are taking some pleasure from the process, and performing it to some worthwhile if ultimately empty end. Other than advancing the neo-marxist project by attempting to overturn traditional cultural and rationalist standards, most of them aren't.