@Glantonmaybe@JacobAShell@FistedFoucault When I studied Eng Lit an elderly professor of renaissance poetry failed my paper because I mentioned Foucault. And I'm glad he did. But what you are talking about is wrong: conservative humanities people and departments still exist.
Bane (in a snugly fitting KN95 mask, holding a group of well-meaning queer entrepreneurs hostage on a zoom call): CENTRING WHITE TEARS AGAIN, BROTHER? BOO-HOO!
Ethical values must be moderated by social values such as being chill, and knowing how to hang. Morality is an aggressive impulse, if unchecked it will rip a community apart.
@BrodeusGrande@thebeautyofsaas 'I can't believe we have to learn how to [USE SYSTEM ESSENTIAL TO MY WORK FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES]! Can you take a look at it?'
@saltduckegg The main virtue of hierarchy is that if any part of the system gets interrupted (and all processes eventually get interrupted), a catastrophic failure is averted. It's not just because people like being bossy.
@ItsTaz1989 A tragic misreading of Freud is the idea that you should spill your emotions all over everyone you meet. He explicitly believed that was a bad idea, and you should save it for your analyst.
@Entick_@mylandsinorder Ding ding ding
Try and get hold of data on the backgrounds of students who get into top unis, then drop out. For some reason it is hard to find!
I honestly believewe lost the game the moment we all decided the best use of educators' time was endlessly debating what to do, at the expense of maintaining any tradition at all.
@deathfanclub No because at some point subjectivity became a rounding error and now using your education to enunciate ennui makes you and enemy of productivity