More from Barbarian Invasions -
The (old, sick, dying) professor and his friends are all sitting around talking about their youth and sex and then they make a list of all the isms they went through - marxism, structuralism, deconstructionism...(there were more, but I can't remember them).
One: Was there any ism we didn't try out?
Another: Cretinism!
And later there's a dinner party (omelette with truffle oil, was it?) where they talk about intelligence. How there were periods in history - Socrates' Athens, the Renaissance, the beginning of the American Revolution - when people were intelligent. What has happened to all that intelligence?
Ahh.