poetix. how did cultural M`rxism take over the universities?
Well, it is an antisemitic dog whistle.if you think it's too irresponsible then let me know and we can say something else
Well, it is an antisemitic dog whistle.
There's a line of Daniel Dennett's, about not wanting to be the "village verificationist" (this is some analytic philosophy thing, I can't even remember what it means), but maybe we should be urbane verificationists, which often comes to my mind. Like, we can develop and employ our simplifying models with a bit of sophistication - in fact, that may be the best thing we can do.
The funny thing about universities is how conservative they mostly actually are. But students are perhaps especially primed to be excited about insight porn, and much critical theory works like insight porn - here is an intellectual doodad with levers you can pull that generates plausible-looking explanations for wicked complex social phenomena, knock yourself out!