I heard that some French Marxist introduced the world "racist" somewhere around 1960 when neo-Marxism was in the process of emerging, also promoting mass immigration and Globalism along with socialism. I think this knowledge is a very important piece of the puzzle... do you happen to know if this is true and if yes, who the French Marxist was?
Outside of the hard sciences there is no real way to tell if someone has "dazzling intellect". In chemistry something works or it doesn't, in math the answer is right or wrong, but in the social sciences that only test is whether a professors opinion is acceptable to their peers. Which is the very definition of an echo chamber.
College students are taught that the real way to vet information is to trust "sources". They have no tools to disagree with a liberal professor because there are no tests to vet what the professor says, the professor can just refer to their american hating peers in an appeal to authority.
College students are taught that the real way to vet information is to trust "sources".
Exactly. They do not teach you to be a critical thinker, they teach you "This is what critical thinkers believe, and by adopting their thoughts, you are now thinking critically."
Of course, that isn't to say we shouldn't value and repeat good ideas, but it's our responsibility compare those ideas against our physical reality before repeating them.
They often have the tools to disagree with their professor, they’re just punished for it, which is the real tragedy. Out here in the Bay Area, it’s pretty common for someone not far left or open minded to take a far left course in a studies program because of breadth requirements, or to try being open minded because if everybody’s believing this stuff maybe there’s something to it? Then they’ll take the course and find the arguments within it wanting, and be asked to write a position paper on something. They’ll write the position paper in disagreement with something, like say the wage gap or capitalism having ‘failed’ or gender being a social construct, working really hard to provide long lists of examples disproving it or at the very least showing it to be unfounded or problematic, things like that. They’re asked to argue for or against a communist type position, and they’ll choose against, and they’ll do a good job of it too because they’ll try extra hard because they actually care and know they’re going against the grain.
Then, they’ll get the paper back. F. The reasons will be listed as vague nonsense, like “you didn’t understand the material,” “you didn’t understand Foucault,” etc, even though there is a very clear and demonstrable understanding of the material, it’s just being disagreed with on a supposedly open assignment where you’re given the option to agree or disagree. They’ll take bright people like that, and when they speak their mind, they are punished for it. To me, this is worse than giving them no tools to disagree because they’re actively taking the tools they do have and breaking them all down and telling them that they are wrong. Imagine trying to learn to ride a bike if any time you balanced and road successfully you were told that’s wrong and pushed to the ground, and that the right way to do it is riding it backwards.
Most people agreeing with the things taught in those courses actually haven’t read or understood it. Most of it is written as ‘militant obscurism’, which is a strategy in writing where you write so convolutedly and backasswardly in an intentional fashion filled with emotion to obscure what it is you’re actually trying to say because if it was said in clear terms it would not at all hold up to any scrutiny. Even smart people have a hard time reading nonsense like that, and they throw it at 18-20 year olds, who kinda skim it maybe if they didn’t just ask the teacher for some notes and they don’t get it and just take a bullet point from it for an essay and get an A.
In that vein, they also teach that logic, reason, and classical forms of argument and communication are toxic, male, and whatever other buzzwords are fashionable. That everyone is just a mouth piece for their social position and class. And everything is a power struggle. That there is no such thing as something being ‘true’, only what you can get someone to believe. Whatever the most people believe is then taken to be true by their new definition.
Well, we shouldn't be too surprised that the people who are paid by tax payer money propagate ideologies that promote them being paid by tax payer money. Or even prop them up as beacons of wisdom in society, towards which people will look up to - the intellectual authorities of society, the priests of socialism, the authorities of knowledge.
This is what these people want, to be relevant and praised for their "intellect." True intellectuals however go to the private sector and do actually productive, challenging work. I personally have only little respect left for academia at this point, and no respect for these entitled, idiotic Marxist professors and their brainwash courses and garbage anti-science. Even the technical side of academia is questionable - a lot of what is taught is just difficult, yet useless trivia.
One can become a capable programmer without any formal education. The internet provides everything one needs to actually educate oneself. I assume this is already true for many courses in general. Regardless of that, I personally learned so much more through actual work than anything I learned in school.
I'm pretty decently educated, but I found it worthless. I was disillusioned with my own major (Psychology) before I even graduated. Most of the best jobs I had were based on more manual dexterity skills than the rote learning in Academia. And the attitudes they taught me were destructive.
I also went through universities, and it was a terrible time for me. I hated everything about it. When I finally started to work everything went upwards.
Anyway, I plan to become an entrepreneur. I am working, besides the 40h/week for my job, on a space ship game. I intend to make it so that it succeeds where all others fail - great exploration, great emphasis on combat, semi-automated player driven economy, as an MMO, and mechanics to prevent too punitive losses when being destroyed. I am almost done with the technical part of the world building - I can create galaxies with 10-100 million solar systems now. The player can fly with FTL through space and see actual stars pass by, and they are procedurally loaded and unloaded. No other game even has that. And I also have giant and super-giant stars! When you pass by them you can witness true scaling, stars which have 50-1000 times the diameter of normal stars.
And I'll also add all the Star Trek phenomenon shit. It will have bold sci-fi & fantasy elements and I will not bind myself to realism at the expense of gameplay and entertainment.
Oh and the battles will be epic. You know that one epic battle scene in Battlestar Galactica? That... I will have.
...Anyway, what I am saying, I think... is fuck academia...
I heard that some French Marxist introduced the world "racist" somewhere around 1960 when neo-Marxism was in the process of emerging, also promoting mass immigration and Globalism along with socialism. I think this knowledge is a very important piece of the puzzle... do you happen to know if this is true and if yes, who the French Marxist was?
Outside of the hard sciences there is no real way to tell if someone has "dazzling intellect". In chemistry something works or it doesn't, in math the answer is right or wrong, but in the social sciences that only test is whether a professors opinion is acceptable to their peers. Which is the very definition of an echo chamber.
College students are taught that the real way to vet information is to trust "sources". They have no tools to disagree with a liberal professor because there are no tests to vet what the professor says, the professor can just refer to their american hating peers in an appeal to authority.
Exactly. They do not teach you to be a critical thinker, they teach you "This is what critical thinkers believe, and by adopting their thoughts, you are now thinking critically."
Of course, that isn't to say we shouldn't value and repeat good ideas, but it's our responsibility compare those ideas against our physical reality before repeating them.
Sounds like the Joseph Goebbels formula for higher education.
Brilliantly put.
They often have the tools to disagree with their professor, they’re just punished for it, which is the real tragedy. Out here in the Bay Area, it’s pretty common for someone not far left or open minded to take a far left course in a studies program because of breadth requirements, or to try being open minded because if everybody’s believing this stuff maybe there’s something to it? Then they’ll take the course and find the arguments within it wanting, and be asked to write a position paper on something. They’ll write the position paper in disagreement with something, like say the wage gap or capitalism having ‘failed’ or gender being a social construct, working really hard to provide long lists of examples disproving it or at the very least showing it to be unfounded or problematic, things like that. They’re asked to argue for or against a communist type position, and they’ll choose against, and they’ll do a good job of it too because they’ll try extra hard because they actually care and know they’re going against the grain.
Then, they’ll get the paper back. F. The reasons will be listed as vague nonsense, like “you didn’t understand the material,” “you didn’t understand Foucault,” etc, even though there is a very clear and demonstrable understanding of the material, it’s just being disagreed with on a supposedly open assignment where you’re given the option to agree or disagree. They’ll take bright people like that, and when they speak their mind, they are punished for it. To me, this is worse than giving them no tools to disagree because they’re actively taking the tools they do have and breaking them all down and telling them that they are wrong. Imagine trying to learn to ride a bike if any time you balanced and road successfully you were told that’s wrong and pushed to the ground, and that the right way to do it is riding it backwards.
Most people agreeing with the things taught in those courses actually haven’t read or understood it. Most of it is written as ‘militant obscurism’, which is a strategy in writing where you write so convolutedly and backasswardly in an intentional fashion filled with emotion to obscure what it is you’re actually trying to say because if it was said in clear terms it would not at all hold up to any scrutiny. Even smart people have a hard time reading nonsense like that, and they throw it at 18-20 year olds, who kinda skim it maybe if they didn’t just ask the teacher for some notes and they don’t get it and just take a bullet point from it for an essay and get an A.
In that vein, they also teach that logic, reason, and classical forms of argument and communication are toxic, male, and whatever other buzzwords are fashionable. That everyone is just a mouth piece for their social position and class. And everything is a power struggle. That there is no such thing as something being ‘true’, only what you can get someone to believe. Whatever the most people believe is then taken to be true by their new definition.
It goes a lot deeper and worse than people think.
"You just didn't understand it." Reminds me of Donnie Darko fan boys 🙄
Well, we shouldn't be too surprised that the people who are paid by tax payer money propagate ideologies that promote them being paid by tax payer money. Or even prop them up as beacons of wisdom in society, towards which people will look up to - the intellectual authorities of society, the priests of socialism, the authorities of knowledge.
This is what these people want, to be relevant and praised for their "intellect." True intellectuals however go to the private sector and do actually productive, challenging work. I personally have only little respect left for academia at this point, and no respect for these entitled, idiotic Marxist professors and their brainwash courses and garbage anti-science. Even the technical side of academia is questionable - a lot of what is taught is just difficult, yet useless trivia.
One can become a capable programmer without any formal education. The internet provides everything one needs to actually educate oneself. I assume this is already true for many courses in general. Regardless of that, I personally learned so much more through actual work than anything I learned in school.
I'm pretty decently educated, but I found it worthless. I was disillusioned with my own major (Psychology) before I even graduated. Most of the best jobs I had were based on more manual dexterity skills than the rote learning in Academia. And the attitudes they taught me were destructive.
As Yoda said I had to unlearn what I had learned.
I also went through universities, and it was a terrible time for me. I hated everything about it. When I finally started to work everything went upwards.
Anyway, I plan to become an entrepreneur. I am working, besides the 40h/week for my job, on a space ship game. I intend to make it so that it succeeds where all others fail - great exploration, great emphasis on combat, semi-automated player driven economy, as an MMO, and mechanics to prevent too punitive losses when being destroyed. I am almost done with the technical part of the world building - I can create galaxies with 10-100 million solar systems now. The player can fly with FTL through space and see actual stars pass by, and they are procedurally loaded and unloaded. No other game even has that. And I also have giant and super-giant stars! When you pass by them you can witness true scaling, stars which have 50-1000 times the diameter of normal stars.
And I'll also add all the Star Trek phenomenon shit. It will have bold sci-fi & fantasy elements and I will not bind myself to realism at the expense of gameplay and entertainment.
Oh and the battles will be epic. You know that one epic battle scene in Battlestar Galactica? That... I will have.
...Anyway, what I am saying, I think... is fuck academia...