I have a liberal arts degree and this reminds me so hard of basically every literary or artwork analysis I did. People spending way too much time trying to come up with the most bullshit interpretation of things.
It reminds me of that pg essay - the more bogus the liberal arts the more bullshit is used to obscure and complicate meaning.
It was specifically about writing, but the attempt to over complicate still applies imo.
“And then of course there are cases where writers don't want to make it easy to understand what they're saying—in corporate announcements of bad news, for example, or at the more bogus end of the humanities. But for nearly everyone else, spoken language is better.”
Studied too. First thing my teacher said “You have the world of artists, we create whatever we feel the need to create. And there is a completely different world of the art critic. Never let the two meet. There is no license to paint.”
It was specifically about writing, but the attempt to over complicate still applies imo.
“And then of course there are cases where writers don't want to make it easy to understand what they're saying—in corporate announcements of bad news, for example, or at the more bogus end of the humanities. But for nearly everyone else, spoken language is better.”
http://paulgraham.com/talk.html