True Soviet Realism

[Ivan Betinov]

As some of you may know, I serve the Party by educating young minds in the proper thoughts and the correct feelings about them.  Our department has a capstone course in which the aspiring scholars, among other things, research and write a substantial (at least by modern standards) paper.

For your reading pleasure I give you this gem of what I sincerely hope was a typo, and my response:

Eisenstein’s career and artistic expression found itself douched in revolutionary kerosene, ignited by a limitless inferno of creativity.

You need to turn down the purple prose by about 95%.  You just gave Sergei Eisenstein a kerosene enema.  And then set fire to it.  

[Ivan the Stakhanovets]

Comrade Other Ivan,

For the sake of clarity and context I must ask, "what was the question", and obviously "was AI assistance allowed?"

[Ivan Betinov]

The class was on the concept of "Poilitical Imagination," taught by one of my comrades. I think this Young Pioneer confused imagination with propaganda.

Pretty sure the student did it all alone...AI would have done a better job.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Comrades, we blocked this newbie a few minutes ago. Read his post and you'll see why:
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[Kommissar Uberdave]

As some of you may know, I serve the Party by educating young minds in the proper thoughts and the correct feelings about them.  Our department has a capstone course in which the aspiring scholars, among other things, research and write a substantial (at least by modern standards) paper.

For your reading pleasure I give you this gem of what I sincerely hope was a typo, and my response:

Eisenstein’s career and artistic expression found itself douched in revolutionary kerosene, ignited by a limitless inferno of creativity.

You need to turn down the purple prose by about 95%.  You just gave Sergei Eisenstein a kerosene enema.  And then set fire to it.  

One had to go to the right schools, I guess;

[Komissar al-Blogunov]

As some of you may know, I serve the Party by educating young minds in the proper thoughts and the correct feelings about them.  Our department has a capstone course in which the aspiring scholars, among other things, research and write a substantial (at least by modern standards) paper.

For your reading pleasure I give you this gem of what I sincerely hope was a typo, and my response:

Eisenstein’s career and artistic expression found itself douched in revolutionary kerosene, ignited by a limitless inferno of creativity.

You need to turn down the purple prose by about 95%.  You just gave Sergei Eisenstein a kerosene enema.  And then set fire to it.  

In lower education, I had a student inform me that in the first battle of ironclad warships, cannibals simply bounced off their sides. Another student informed me that Washington was the commander of the congenital army. I learn a lot from my students.

[Ivan Betinov]

Magellan circumised the globe. (Did he use a clipper?)

The Transcendental Railroad was completed in 1869. (You can get on a train in New York and groove all the way to San Francisco. Got the year right, at any rate.)

I had a student refer repeatedly to a Soviet leader named Krutz Jeff. (You know ole Krutz Jeff, right? Walked with a limp and ran a bait shop on Lake Peipus)

An early form of man was called Homo Herodotus (Man the Historian?)

[jackalopelipsky]

Magellan circumised the globe. (Did he use a clipper?)

The Transcendental Railroad was completed in 1869. (You can get on a train in New York and groove all the way to San Francisco. Got the year right, at any rate.)

I had a student refer repeatedly to a Soviet leader named Krutz Jeff. (You know ole Krutz Jeff, right? Walked with a limp and ran a bait shop on Lake Peipus)

An early form of man was called Homo Herodotus (Man the Historian?)

Well, of course this is all true, comrades.

Jackalopelipsky’s got your American answer to Soviet Realism right here.

[Ivan the Stakhanovets]

Had the question been something along the lines of "Describe Eisenstiein's inspiration for the use of flame in his railcar art" as part of a capstone class to his art appreciation major, I'd have declared him an overachiever and nominated him for automatic selection to the Gender Studies Graduate program of his choice.

Regrettably, he's just another useful idiot GEN-Z product, destined to get a government job. Best wishes to him, and his I-phone.

Ivan, keep doing what you do. In my experience teaching at the undergraduate level, I found higher education a lot like panning for gold at the end of a sewer pipe, you'll sift through a lot of liquefied crap before finding a nugget...