I was looking back through old MySpace blogs for a blog that I am currently writing, and came across this blog that I thought deserved its own space. I write about university indoctrination, but after years of experience I must say that this indoctrination and brainwashing is happening at all levels of society, including corporate and the media. Everything is interconnected and controlled by the oligarchs.
It was written on June 7th, 2008:
Beauty is a subject of aesthetics, and is therefore subjective. One does not have to have a reason to dislike something; one just does. There are simply some things that do not go well with the tastes and affections of one's heart. Mimicking the ideals that are supposedly en vogue is not education, it is simply following the intellectual trend of the day. It is easy to parrot that which one is being constantly told in textbooks and in the classroom. The truth is, bias and prejudice are a part of our humanity. Along with our critical skills comes the ability to judge whether we consider something fit according to our tastes. One can still accept it as part of the world community, yet nevertheless have the ability to dislike it and speak against it from a subjective point of view. The truth is everything is subjective, except mathematics and the sciences-- and even then, I'd have my doubts of the latter. What, after all, is truth? Alas, it is not in our human lot to ever find out.
The university system seems to be trying to make us into robotic, unnaturally uber-rational, human beings that are pre-programmed to a theoretical ideal of what social scientists call "political correctness, " which is a concept that is foreign and unnatural to human nature. The fact is that no matter how much education we get, and how much we are socialized into hiding it, humans will always be prejudice. Just like religion tried to stifle certain human urges, the university system wants to stifle emotions that are very human indeed. And the masses simply follow, of course, as they always have since the beginning of civilization. There is nothing educated in that.
It was written on June 7th, 2008:
Beauty is a subject of aesthetics, and is therefore subjective. One does not have to have a reason to dislike something; one just does. There are simply some things that do not go well with the tastes and affections of one's heart. Mimicking the ideals that are supposedly en vogue is not education, it is simply following the intellectual trend of the day. It is easy to parrot that which one is being constantly told in textbooks and in the classroom. The truth is, bias and prejudice are a part of our humanity. Along with our critical skills comes the ability to judge whether we consider something fit according to our tastes. One can still accept it as part of the world community, yet nevertheless have the ability to dislike it and speak against it from a subjective point of view. The truth is everything is subjective, except mathematics and the sciences-- and even then, I'd have my doubts of the latter. What, after all, is truth? Alas, it is not in our human lot to ever find out.
The university system seems to be trying to make us into robotic, unnaturally uber-rational, human beings that are pre-programmed to a theoretical ideal of what social scientists call "political correctness, " which is a concept that is foreign and unnatural to human nature. The fact is that no matter how much education we get, and how much we are socialized into hiding it, humans will always be prejudice. Just like religion tried to stifle certain human urges, the university system wants to stifle emotions that are very human indeed. And the masses simply follow, of course, as they always have since the beginning of civilization. There is nothing educated in that.
Jane, did you have Judy Olson as a professor for any of your classes at CSULA? She was one of the few professors that doesn't fit the criteria you list. I swear, I fell in love with that woman.
ReplyDeleteNo, I never took any of her classes. I only attended CSULA for one year, my last year of university. I had many great professors, but not Dr. Olson.
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