Obran's banning of gender studies & expulsion of Central European University has excited the right to think big: what if we get rid of the humanities altogether? https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1134841341907734529 …
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Ironically, the main effect of abolishing humanities would be disappearance of writers who are backbone of conservative thought. I mean, people will continue to read Dickens for pleasure but few will pick up Samuel Johnson or Pope or Burke unless required to do so.
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Why bomb ourselves back to the Stone age, when we can voluntarily create Dark Ages II, The Stupiding.
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The "We must destroy Western Civilization in order to save it" crowd is getting worryingly loud
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Ah, Silicon Valley. "Look everybody, we invented buses! We need billions of dollars of investment to replace busing with busing that also scans your face to see if you need future arresting!"
End of conversation
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These are much the same people who love to holler at the top of their lungs about the crucial need to Defend Western Civilization smdh
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I maintain Shakespeare is overvalued. The language is so hard to follow that you’d be better off having high school students read Walden.
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Many who have done real science find they need the skills of a humanities major to do the work.
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Here's an interesting article about the recent state of Universities in Hungary. The Orban Administration's own privatization goal here seems kinda counterproductive, because it'd undermine its kulturkampf aims...:
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As a rhetoric professor, my area would probably survive but in different home (mainly in English depts now). But “the right” has its own rhetoric to end most of the humanities, indeed.
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