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> What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint. Alan Bloom knew[1]. Paraphra
by smitty1e 4y ago
> What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint.
Alan Bloom knew[1].
Paraphrasing Churchill, "If you're going through a Dark Age, floor it."
One hopes that the passing of the current crop of U.S. "leadership" supports actual reform.
Tech understands the need to decentralize; politics rather more resembles a singularity, and we only seem to grasp the danger in the party we abhor.
May we pass through this dip swiftly.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impoverished/dp/1451683200/ref=mp_s_a_1_1 https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impov...
- goto11 4y agoDid Bloom use "intuition"-language or "rationality"-language?
- smitty1e 4y agoBloom correlated the origin of wave of dunces arriving at college (and currently leading the country astray) with the Summer of Love in the 1960s.
- yesenadam 4y agoI read it a long time ago and loved it, though wasn't at all sure how true its account was. Wasn't there a lot about how Nietzsche had taken over the USA and was just the air we breathe? - e.g. our talk of "values" and "lifestyle", key Nietzschean terms. I learned elsewhere how much Nietzsche got from Emerson, and how much Emerson in turn had got from Germans. A convoluted story! Also, the philosopher of the Summer of Love was German—Marcuse, from the Frankfurt School.
- goto11 4y agoBut the described language change correlates with 80's Reaganism rather then late-60s summer of love and counterculture. So I guess Blooms correlation have been falsified?