These clips are taken from a video that was recently pointed to by CY and which I (with help of UD) embedded here. We need to ponder what is happening with our civilisation under the impact of evolutionary materialism and its fellow travellers up to and including cultural marxist agendas (also cf. here), so pardon some painful reading:
How have we come to a pass such as this?
Schaeffer (suitably modified) has a suggestion or two:
Where also the seven mopuntains of influence perspective championed by Wallnau et al (again as adapted) may also help us see how the community is shaped by influences such as this branch of cultural marxism, aka “critical studies”:
What should we then do?
This may help:
Again, let us ponder. END
Clips illustrating the state of gender studies. These have to be seen to be believed. KF
2. Not hard to believe if you pay taxes in a Western world jurisdiction. Look at it like this, kairosfocus:
We keep really, really stupid people out of the STEM subjects where they might actually harm someone. It’s a small price to pay for ensuring that the person giving out the meds knows where the decimal place should be.
Anyone dumb enough to pay for this pile of doo-doo may not be smart enough for that.
This is mind boggling. That adult human beings could be induced to utter such meaningless drivel and apparently put it on paper staggers one’s imagination. All in the cause of higher education. ha ha ha ha.
Great career of working in coffee shops is waiting for gender studies graduates đ
But sadly, Eugen at 4, many of these people will have contracted serious debt believing that they would be taught something of value. And they are likely to be mad as stink at the rest of us because we can’t see any use in this stuff. And they may want to take it out on us. Violence may follow.
News, competent career guidance? KF
kairosfocus at 6: Competent career advice?: Gosh, just from what I have seen: 1. Go for STEM. 2. Study. 3. Stay away from drugs and anyone in general who does not have any clear idea why they are alive. Other ideas?
News, what happened to high school level career guidance courses, aptitude assessments, counselling and more? Not everyone is going to earn a professional, advanced math-heavy degree. And some degrees as illustrated have little serious substance nor are they equipping people to think at a serious level. I understand marxist academic politics all too well, but setting people up for frustration and failure like this is inexcusable. KF
We have always had fields of study that had little prospect of career. Shit, I have two degrees in marine biology. From Guelph. A city about as far away from an ocean as you can get. But we always had degrees in arts, psychology, philosophy, none of which had much in the way of career prospects. Then there was comparative religion, English literature, languages and journalism.
kairosfocus at 8, frustrated and failed people can be dangerous too. My compatriot Mark Steyn:
https://www.steynonline.com/7916/the-seduction-of-violence
They get all the madder when the rest of the world just wants to go on with our (possibly less crappy?) lives.
I think alumni will need to start speaking out on what the U’s are turning out these days.
Notice, no-one is brazen enough to try to justify the pattern of thought seen in the clips above? Ask yourself, very soberingly, how such gets institutionalised and entrenched. KF
A: Try, Cultural Marxism (aka “Critical Studies/Theory”), e.g.:
As in, surprise — not. (This should only be surprising to one who thought all forms of Marxism met their end with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.)
Let the intro to the Standford Enc of Phil on Critical Theory speak for itself:
It should be obvious that to be stigmatised as an oppressor or enabler thereof creates an open door to polarisation and dismissal, trapping those indoctrinated in such thought in a radical paradigm. This practically invites setting up crooked yardsticks which then lock out inconvenient truths that do not fit the scheme.
Giminez’s discussion of a triad, class, gender and race then uncomfortably echoes what has been driving our headlines and talking heads for decades.
The only real way to break such is to force the crooked yardstick to confront plumbline truths that are of independent character and which expose the critical fallacies in the system. Nigh on thirty years ago, Communism collapsed as a global institution because it suffered a fatal collision with economic realities pointed out since the 1920’s.
That sort of timeline is sobering, a generation-length battle for the soul of our civilisation is inherently a daunting prospect.
In our time, the obvious first challenge to any academic juggernaut is, can your frame of thought adequately ground the responsible, rational, morally governed freedom required for academic discourse to have any credibility?
The only level this can be answered is world-roots, and no scheme of thought unable to bridge the IS-OUGHT gap at this level will be sound. This includes, most directly, anything pivoting on evolutionary materialist scientism and/or its fellow travellers. (In recent weeks here at UD, we have seen how that includes toying around with versions of Taoism, not just Modernist Theology, Post-Modernism, Neo-Paganism and the like.)
By contrast, it is readily shown that
But you see, in too many minds, God is the ultimate oppressor to be liberated from.
Only a hard collision with reality will suffice to break such, especially when it has become deeply institutionalised across many of the citadels that dominate the commanding heights of our civilisation.
Welcome to the kulturkampf that is already in progress.
KF