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> IMO, the humanities have a big place in the University - a place for "higher" learning. It elevates us over the day-to-day drab of doing errands and keeping y
by 6502nerdface 11y ago
> IMO, the humanities have a big place in the University - a place for "higher" learning. It elevates us over the day-to-day drab of doing errands and keeping your shoelaces tied, they connect us to some of the most wonderful human achievements of the past. But it is not useful, and has never been so.
How can it be that there is no use in being "elevated" or in being connected to "the most wonderful human achievements of the past"?
- trgn 11y agoI guess you're right, I formulated that too flippantly. I meant, they have no use in the utilitarian sense, in the neo-liberal university-as-a-trade-school.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI guess because the wonder of human achievement only matters in so far as it can be turned into the wonder of inflowing dollars. Seriously, the more efficient our economy becomes, the more it sucks the life itself out of everything. Dreaming, big or small, is not profitable.