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>If people don't like culture, that's fine I thought the whole point of the modern humanities is that culture (or at least western culture) is evil and oppress
by logicchains 12y ago
>If people don't like culture, that's fine
I thought the whole point of the modern humanities is that culture (or at least western culture) is evil and oppressive. In my experience the average humanities course is not concerned with "culture" in the "cultured" sense of the word, which I assume is the definition you were using. The university I attended recently dropped all the Greek, Latin and Classics courses, for instance, and fired (negotiated generous early retirement packages with) all the staff who had taught them.
- irremediable 12y agoI disagree that modern humanities have abandoned those topics. I know plenty of people studying Greek, Latin, Classics, etc. Especially if you count people studying them as modules, rather than as the entire focus of their degree. I get the impression you don't value things like anthropology, non-Western history and gender studies. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'd disagree here as well, though. I value and respect those disciplines, and I don't see their growth as a bad thing.
- logicchains 12y agoI suspect if you compared the relative number of people studying those topics now to fifty years ago, there'd be significantly fewer now studying classics etc. I've nothing against anthropology, gender studies etc. as disciplines, just with how they're often taught, with a focus on promoting particular ideologies rather than detached critical thinking.
- wfo 12y agoI hope you don't honestly believe the garbage you are spouting, and are just trying to be incendiary on purpose to try to work people up and make a political point. In that case you should simply stop.