This is a good piece with examples of attacks by the ideologically militant multitude against what is unfortunately these days the free thinking minority.
If these attacks succeed, education is on its way to moral bankruptcy.
If these attacks succeed, education is on its way to moral bankruptcy.
With stuff like Instagram it's the norm that people mime meaningless things, just mindlessly repeating unexamined ideas (blackout is a great example).
It's gobsmacking to me when I see how many educated (liberal arts educated friends, no less) people passing around these conversation guide infographics...as though they can't express original ideas, hold a conversation, etc.
It's critical that people are brave enough to recognize the obvious illiberal attitudes circulating and criticize them for the nonsense they are.
Not founding all things for everyone does not imply moral bankruptcy.
Unfortunately the same institution is today spending too much time and energy on various socio-political abstractions, hence it is not being able to offer the same opportunities for scientific exploration I enjoyed during my time there to the new generation.
From my experience, the pinnacle of education was around the end of the cold war here in the West, then it started going downhill once we lacked a properly defined adversary and started to look for enemies and oppressors in our own midst.