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2019-11-17 Home Front: Culture Wars
I Didn't Have to Die on This Hill, But I Did
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-17 02:08|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 You're right, it's not just the arts.

There's also the perpetual volatility in academics altogether. Allow your passion to get in the way of your job, display an inability to 'play the game', and you'll be set upon by sharks.

The few non-idiots that have the temerity to pursue practicable approaches in sciences or even distinctive ideas in the arts in an institution are always sidelined and leave, like Mr. Unicorn.

I worked with the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR) or the dipper for a year. It's not the humanities or any academic institution, and does not allow for much ideation. But it has become a bunch of professional naysayers and remf brain nannies trying to mollycoddle soldiers with western liberal solutions. Things like 'indefinite' rules of engagement, humanist approaches to interrogation, 'post-encounter counseling' and that faggot group talk thing where you bare your soul to who-knows-what.

I came to jest that they were foreign agents or receiving some sort of payment from our enemies ☺! Actually I learnt they just imbibe what little they can understand of evolving western psychiatric mores, which are worth jack shit if you ask me. Some 'original' thinkers did try to merge Jungian with Yoga (!) trying to please the new hindoo masters and deliver an ambiguity the likes of which would confound even Mengele. Sycophants all, to one or the other. No real originality anywhere.

I received such opprobrium for my research, and they tried to behave like academics all the time; writing effete complaints, keeping people from assisting me, trying to find out just what we did in our sealed off wing, 'whistleblowing'...

I still have hate letters blaming me with besmirching the medical sciences and using 'a force meant for good' to further political evils. ☺
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-17 03:33||   2019-11-17 03:33|| Front Page Top

#2 As Dr. Kissinger said, faculty politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-17 04:41||   2019-11-17 04:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Sad but all too common. The West is gripped by self-hatred. We worship the greedy and vulgar, and trash our forefathers and their great achievements.

We have replaced our heritage of great art and thought with a culture of meretricious junk and absurd shows of virtue.

Trump is a vulgarian, but let's hope that he can play John the Baptist to a future savior-- i.e. by exposing the lies and nonsense of our elite to such an extent that his successors can attempt to restore respect and love for our western civilization's cultural heritage.

If not, then we need to look outside the US. Look east, to Hungary or Poland or maybe even Russia.
Posted by Lex  2019-11-17 08:48||   2019-11-17 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 The West is gripped by self-hatred

Don't know about "the West", but academia (IMO) is gripped by second-rate people who - though normally lazy - would work their asses off to destroy anybody whom they suspect of being their better.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-17 12:52||   2019-11-17 12:52|| Front Page Top

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