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2019-05-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Veteran of army psych ops shocked by the flawed teaching going on in universities

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Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Total blasphemy! He must be stoned immediately.

I have studied culture across East and West Africa, and this is not the case. Black people across cultures are not the same, and white people across cultures are not the same. In order to produce these theories, small fractions of the population are surveyed, and then generalizations are made about their entire race. A small piece of life is being made to look as if it represents all of life. Believing this is no different from believing that social media represents real life.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-09 07:22|| 2019-05-09 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Teaching nowdays is nothing more than brainwashing.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-05-09 09:34|| 2019-05-09 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 A large part of my job was to study beliefs, and I know that they will not change with one discussion, nor through forced logic. They are cemented inside individuals, and can only change over long periods of time.

Yeah, and after they've been brainwashed at our universities it's extremely difficult to talk to them. They freak out when confronted by facts that contradict the dogma that has been shoved down their throats in school. It's really scary. You can't beat them over the head with it. You just have to persist, gently, day in and day out. If I had known that this was being done I would have never forked over all that tuition money. They would be better off as plumbers, electricians or beauticians.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-05-09 10:35|| 2019-05-09 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Noam Chumpsky said in 1998: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum (stay within the Overton window) of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

IMHO, people in the liberal arts and social sciences have shot themselves in both feet (Not so much in the hard sciences.)

Posted by JohnQC 2019-05-09 18:20|| 2019-05-09 18:20|| Front Page Top

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