One Day At Boot Camp

"I don't care what you say about whether it does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different” - Christopher Luxon on boot camps (1 News)

: Attention! Stand by your beds! Up straight, shoulders back, you bottom-feeders! Now listen up, and listen good. My name is Drill Sergeant Luxon, and for the duration of this intellectual boot camp I will own your intellectual butts. And you intellectuals will answer me as sir. Is that clear? I said is that clear?

: Sir yes sir!

: Good. Now do you know why you are here?

: Because we think?

: Because we think – what?

: Because we think, sir!

: That’s more like it Mr Descartes but I still have no idea what you’re talking about.

: I think, therefore I am. And that is why I am here. Of that I can be certain. Sir!

: Let me tell you something, Mr Descartes. Nobody likes a smart-arse. But it’s your own time you’re wasting because I can have these intellectual conversations all day long. Now get down and give me fifty.

: Fifty what exactly sir?

: What was that Mr Chomsky?

: Fifty what? I’m just saying that from a linguistics perspective –

: Do not test me Mr Chomsky. Now get down on the floor with Mr Descartes and give me fifty of what he’s giving me. Because, as I say, I can have these intellectual conversations all day long.

: Sir yes sir!