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2018-08-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

VDH: The Deflation of the Academic Brand

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 They got corrupted by (as usual) a huge flow of money out of ~~Washington~~ the Swamp. They jump to repeat Eisenhower's warning about the Military-Industrial complex but bury (as with most contemporary journalism that don't fit the narrative) his warning about academia -

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

They sold their integrity much like Detroit sold its in the automotive world. Volume over quality. The bottom line. '73 embargo introduced Americans to Japanese cars that were solidly built, less expensive, fuel efficient, and not nickled and dimed to death on the invoice. Detroit never recovered.

Most state universities stated as A&Ms, agricultural and mechanical, practical need of the 19th Century. They've been corrupted through an indentured student population to cover everything and specifically so much that has no practical application outside of academia itself.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-17 07:39|| 2018-08-17 07:39|| Front Page Top

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