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The best evidence I have seen for this among friends still in academia is the near-uniform lack of knowledge of, or inability to articulate serious critiques of
by Torgo 11y ago
The best evidence I have seen for this among friends still in academia is the near-uniform lack of knowledge of, or inability to articulate serious critiques of their own ideas. Almost down to the person, the people I interact with have a "my ideology represents the end of history" mindset. It is getting worse and is not limited to right-left. I recently have seen ruthless attacks against Germaine Greer by campus feminists that don't seem to have an inkling of the history or ideological basis of her school of thought. She's just old, stupid and evil, according to them. Our ideas are unopposed among sane, decent and intelligent people.
- narrator 11y agoIn 19th century Russia, after the unsuccessful attempt at revolution by the Decemberists, the revolutionaries were purged from academia. Thus, the evolution of political though occurred outside of academia in the fiction of popular writers and elsewhere. This eventually led to the development of extreme ideologies that precipitated the development of Bolsheivism. This is probably what will happen here.
- kobayashi 11y agoHigher education is mostly an echo chamber of Leftist thought. This lack of self-awareness and self-critique actually hurts Leftist thought as a whole - rather than the best ideas being sorted to the top, more extreme and largely unscrutinized Leftist theory begets more of the same.