{"id":6656,"date":"2024-10-03T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2024-10-06T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T15:33:31","slug":"first-year-in-sosc-class-somehow-smarter-than-every-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/first-year-in-sosc-class-somehow-smarter-than-every-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Year in SOSC Class Somehow Smarter Than Every Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HARPER 124 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18-year-old Don Sumbons, a first-year from Indiana, is apparently smarter than every single philosopher that he read in his section of Power, Identity, Resistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sumbons, who goes by \u201cDonny Boy,\u201d says that the ideas presented by the likes of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau were not unknown to him. \u201cI thought of this shit in, like, elementary school. I was saying the word \u2018commonwealth\u2019 at age four. Like just in conversations and stuff,\u201d said Sumbons. \u201cI was the platonic ideal of a boy genius. That\u2019s what my kindergarten teacher said.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of his classmates take a different view of Sumbons\u2019 intelligence. \u201cEvery time someone reads a quote out loud in class, he tries to say it faster than them to make it look like it was his own thought,\u201d said second-year Myra Dunde. \u201cOr he\u2019ll just say something that makes no sense, and if people disagree with it he\u2019ll get mad and start saying, \u2018Can we just have a goddamn dialectical conversation around here?\u2019 He says \u2018dialectical\u2019 a lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When confronted with this quote, Sumbons said, \u201cIf my fellow men don\u2019t have a will to power, then I say this sovereign is breaking the social contract under natural law. Dumbass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARPER 124 \u201318-year-old Don Sumbons, a first-year from Indiana, is apparently smarter than every single philosopher that he read in his section of Power, Identity, Resistance.\u00a0 Sumbons, who goes by \u201cDonny Boy,\u201d says that the ideas presented by the likes of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau were not unknown to him. \u201cI thought of this shit in, like, elementary school. I was saying the word \u2018commonwealth\u2019 at age four. Like just in conversations and stuff,\u201d said Sumbons. \u201cI was the platonic ideal of a boy genius. That\u2019s what my kindergarten teacher said.\u201d\u00a0 Some of his classmates take a different view of Sumbons\u2019 intelligence. \u201cEvery time someone reads a quote out loud in class, he tries to say it faster than them to make it look like it was his own thought,\u201d said second-year Myra Dunde. \u201cOr he\u2019ll just say something that makes no sense, and if people disagree with it he\u2019ll get mad and start saying, \u2018Can we just have a goddamn dialectical conversation around here?\u2019 He says \u2018dialectical\u2019 a lot.\u201d\u00a0 When confronted with this quote, Sumbons said, \u201cIf my fellow men don\u2019t have a will to power, then I say this sovereign is breaking the social contract under natural law. Dumbass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2080,"featured_media":6657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}