Yes, but that’s because we now teach the humanities *badly*
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge
They're very good at what they do. What they do is catastrophically bad.
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Replying to @St_Rev
This is true of lefty propagandized humanities but not of the humanities qua humanities.
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge
And to which 'humanities' do you think the original tweet refers? Y'all.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Obviously that’s what she means, but it is true that everyone should be educated in the humanities, just in good humanities
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge @St_Rev
it was certainly good for society in the past! or, so our mythology tells us...?
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @EmperorCoolidge
It's an ensemble of zombie subjects arising from the need to create a large scribe class to translate the masses of ancient texts that started arriving in Europe around the 13th century, IIRC. Writing literary criticism is not a skill the average person should value.
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Replying to @St_Rev @mr_archenemy
Writing literary criticism? No. Reading and analyzing literature, yes. An understanding of history, yes. Considering important problems of morality, the complete human person, theology and art, yes.
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Replying to @EmperorCoolidge @mr_archenemy
History is valuable, the rest are useless as means to solve "problems of current political life". This is about making STEM people kneel to the yoke of prog orthodoxy, nothing more.
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Replying to @St_Rev @mr_archenemy
I could not conceive of not being able to do the others, it would be like missing an arm. And you manifestly do have a humanities education, it’s just self taught like most good ones these day. Heck, we’re having a philosophical discussion right now
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I've tried several times to redirect the discussion back to actually-existing structures relevant to the context of the original tweet. If you're going to keep talking about something I'm not addressing, this is unproductive and I'm out.
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