When you find yourself concerned that “STEM-ification” of education makes people wealthy based on skills alone without indoctrinating them in politics. Sounds like heaven to me.https://twitter.com/joshuamound/status/962790271284072449 …
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Replying to @AustenAllred
hard disagree. half of higher education having been turned into a leftist political inculcation scheme doesn't make ideal the other half being a spiritless materialist jobs training program
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
it's frustrating how many STEM/tech types are completely illiterate when it comes to history, art, culture etc. the ideal of the polymath is a good one and should be promoted
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
this is of course complicated by the fact that there are so many leftist commentators shouting "tech people need to learn about xyz subjects!!" which is...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
...well understood as code for "submit to our belief system and do what we say"
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but as that exhortation uses subject matter as a proxy for politics, the STEM side refusal is a refusal of politics that intertwines with a refusal of subject
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