There's a great talk out there by Camille Anna Paglia (possibly in conversation with Jordan Peterson) where scathingly she talks about the takeover of universit

There's a great talk out there by Camille Anna Paglia (possibly in conversation with Jordan Peterson) where scathingly she talks about the takeover of universities in the late 60s by small-minded bourgeois careerists, authoritarian aparachik clutching little red books. They (according to Paglia) were quick hijack the authentic projects of humanist social critique (Fromm, Habermas etc and also civil rights movement) as their own, to mininterpret, distort, weaponise and turn them to serve personal ambition. Small-mindedness is a dangerous. I think it was Emma Goldman who said "the greatest violence is ignorance". Wilful ignorance, a la Bradbury's 451, is therefore wilful violence, and Bradbury is right, some people delight in it.