If you know his teachings he's been a sort of anti-nihlist for the longest time, but is a very liberal guy at heart. It's one of the reasons he's considered one of the most hated people in his field, he's both too progressive and counter culture at the same time. His past teachings are in no way related to this current statement which popped up on his radar when they started attacking him for his beliefs, which was years ago btw. Only now that his reputation is basically ruined (to some, not all) does he offer us this statement. That doesn't take away he's a brilliant man at all, I'm just saying he took an arrow to the knee more than 4 years ago and only now does he lecture us about the dangers of arrows.
Only now? I'm confused by what you mean. Do you mean 'now' as in this article, or 'now' as in 'not 20 years ago' but when he started speaking openly about it a few years ago?
Why didn't he release this exact article back when his transgender comments almost had him removed from the psychology community several years ago? Yes I mean specifically scientific activism like climate changes and such. His core teaching go far beyond our era and are applicable to humanity in any epoch really.
He couldn't have released this exact article as the developments he is speaking of are new, but he has certainly talked at length many, many times about diversity, inclusion and equity in universities and the negative consequences. You could hardly miss it if you've heard or seen him speak so I still don't know what you are talking about exactly. Are you now making this specifically just about the hard sciences?
"Why should you care? Because this is, in truth, the state of the modern university -- and what happens there will happen everywhere five years later."
These are just the examples I can remember, but he definitely talked about it in the Joe Rogan podcasts. I think you'd have a better chance of finding him talking about the problems with universities than not if you picked media of him at random.
Yes this is precisely about the empirical sciences as opposed to evolving cultural norms on a college campus. You could say the Marxist infiltration of the American education system is a product of the Cold war, long before even McCarthy. The difference today is the average, anonymous, uneducated activist has a say in the educator's policy decisions absent what merit they should have or believe they have. I know the two seem similar in nature, but to someone who's looked at this kind of behavior for a long time the difference between faculty deliberating changes through discussion and being forced into a decision change without a vote cannot be mistaken as the same situation. It is not the same for a committee of independent liberal minded members to agree on liberal policies (even if they're morons) than it is for an angry activist mob to dictate what those officials can be for or against. One is legitimate but unfortunate, the other removes authority from the power structure and allocates it to self proclaimed victims.
If you know his teachings he's been a sort of anti-nihlist for the longest time, but is a very liberal guy at heart. It's one of the reasons he's considered one of the most hated people in his field, he's both too progressive and counter culture at the same time. His past teachings are in no way related to this current statement which popped up on his radar when they started attacking him for his beliefs, which was years ago btw. Only now that his reputation is basically ruined (to some, not all) does he offer us this statement. That doesn't take away he's a brilliant man at all, I'm just saying he took an arrow to the knee more than 4 years ago and only now does he lecture us about the dangers of arrows.
Only now? I'm confused by what you mean. Do you mean 'now' as in this article, or 'now' as in 'not 20 years ago' but when he started speaking openly about it a few years ago?
Why didn't he release this exact article back when his transgender comments almost had him removed from the psychology community several years ago? Yes I mean specifically scientific activism like climate changes and such. His core teaching go far beyond our era and are applicable to humanity in any epoch really.
He couldn't have released this exact article as the developments he is speaking of are new, but he has certainly talked at length many, many times about diversity, inclusion and equity in universities and the negative consequences. You could hardly miss it if you've heard or seen him speak so I still don't know what you are talking about exactly. Are you now making this specifically just about the hard sciences?
some examples, btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquIQisaZFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA (from a 90 minute interview with Jonathan Haidt titled 'The Perilous State of the University)
2 hours discussing what happened with Lindsay Shepherd at Wilfred Laurier University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWVmDSMl30s
"Why should you care? Because this is, in truth, the state of the modern university -- and what happens there will happen everywhere five years later."
Oh, and he has spoken specifically about climate change too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUylMbTwY_0
These are just the examples I can remember, but he definitely talked about it in the Joe Rogan podcasts. I think you'd have a better chance of finding him talking about the problems with universities than not if you picked media of him at random.
Yes this is precisely about the empirical sciences as opposed to evolving cultural norms on a college campus. You could say the Marxist infiltration of the American education system is a product of the Cold war, long before even McCarthy. The difference today is the average, anonymous, uneducated activist has a say in the educator's policy decisions absent what merit they should have or believe they have. I know the two seem similar in nature, but to someone who's looked at this kind of behavior for a long time the difference between faculty deliberating changes through discussion and being forced into a decision change without a vote cannot be mistaken as the same situation. It is not the same for a committee of independent liberal minded members to agree on liberal policies (even if they're morons) than it is for an angry activist mob to dictate what those officials can be for or against. One is legitimate but unfortunate, the other removes authority from the power structure and allocates it to self proclaimed victims.