The cultural ideas of today will determine the political priorities of tomorrow. Sane people have largely thrown up their hands and allowed the bad ideas in the humanities to run rampant, convinced that it was mere academic eccentricity, irrelevant to wider society. Big mistake.
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It's no longer strictly limited to the humanities sadly. As the generation that birthed today's activists said "The personal is the political" Science has historically been deeply person. Rooted in people's odd fascinations with the world.
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Now relevance is demanded, science is often used as a political tool. Is the community really oriented towards Truth? Maybe I'm glamorizing the past, but there is something rotten in the state of Denmark
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My current university used to have entomology, ornithology, ichthyology, etc departments. They're gone now, there's really no room for natural sciences anymore. Hell, I've heard people use "Natural History" as a pejorative
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I even once had someone tell me "No onw cares that your grandfather took you to the zoo and you fell in love with animals" Yet people like that are the ones that inspire the most admiration and are among the greatest minds we had
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There's a major problem with the fact that we're told that the only way you can be a scholar is to get a PhD. Universities don't seem to inspire intellectual courage, curiosity, humility, and an ethical focus on pain stakingly discovering truth
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Denmark is a prison
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Though there are certainly exceptions, but we know that exceptions don't make the rule
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