Eric Shansby
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Eric Lawrence Shansby is a cartoonist. He draws cartoons for various American periodicals, including the Washington Post. His cartoons appear weekly next to humorist Gene Weingarten's "Below The Beltway" column[1].
Shansby is a student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. [2]
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[edit] Troubles
[edit] Linguistic Difficulties
Shansby's work has always shown a deep concern and respect for the complexities of language. For this reason, it has come as a great surprise to many observers that Shansby has not been able to deal with Yale's lax language requirements. As of late 2006, it appears that Shansby may not graduate due to this linguistic difficulty[citation needed]. This failure to graduate would allow Shansby to pursue his artistic plans full-time, but he has indicated publicly that it would not be a satisfying conclusion to his academic career[citation needed].
[edit] Behaviorism & Incompleteness
In 2006 Shansby's work took an unexpected turn towards a reconciliation of two of the 20th century's most notable intellectual results: the development of behavioral psychology and Gödel's proof of the incompleteness theorem. Despite Wilhelm Wundt's early influence on Shansby's emotivist work, the young cartoonist had grown more moderate with time, tending towards a psychological framework that owed more and more to the writings of B.F. Skinner. The devotion to this strand of thought ran headlong into the work of the Austrian mathematician and logician, Kurt Gödel, during Shansby's time working with behavioral psychologist John B. Watson. As the 2006 academic year closed, Shansby found himself unable to assemble his thoughts on behaviorism and its applications into a form cohesive enough to satisfy the famously-demanding Watson. Due to this difficulty in dealing with Shansby's behaviorism, Watson was forced to apply the incompleteness theorem to Shansby's academic record, leaving him with yet another Yale credit in limbo.
[edit] Notable Quotes
- "You know, look at me, I'm a genius. For fuck's sake, what do I have to do to prove to you son-of-a-bitches what I can do, and who I am? And don't you dare -- don't you dare fucking criticize my work like that! You who don't know anything about it. I would say I owe everything to Peanuts, really."
- Interview with the Hartford Courant, November 2005 [3] - "We either wait 20 to 30 years for them to die, or we — I don't know — we can assassinate them"
-Of the older generation of professional editorial cartoonists. Quoted in Lexington Herald-Leader, April 2004 [4] - "Surveying the lead generation landscape, one thing sticks out – that not one lead generation company plays a dominant role in more than one vertical. Some, such as Azoogle and Adteractive have done a commendable, i.e. seven figure monthly, job building large businesses in both, but neither yet ranks among the top three for either. What makes it tough for any one lead generation company to dominate more than one vertical has to do with the nature of the lead generation model."
- Movers & Shakers feature from the Yale Daily News, 2006 - "Grab your glocks when you see e-rac, call the cops when you see e-rac."
-From his upcoming album featuring Tupac Shakur, "Knee-Deep in Bitches" - "This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business."
- Reaction to a paper read to the Moral Sciences Club, as reported by Heinrich Ng
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/25/LI2005032501927.html
- ^ http://yale.facebook.com/profile.php?id=300792&hiq=eric
- ^ http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-cartoonist.artnov28,0,1540058.story?coll=hc-headlines-life
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20040918105645/http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/8508902.htm