tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3767149170947791521..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Deconstruction, Another Word for PogromStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42879503820840290242016-12-14T18:38:34.187-08:002016-12-14T18:38:34.187-08:00Ares says: "I'm a solid data-driven perso...Ares says: "I'm a solid data-driven person myself..."<br /><br />Right, Starhawk.Olympus Aresnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77495363928324057942016-12-14T17:17:55.706-08:002016-12-14T17:17:55.706-08:00I recall the movie "Dead Poet's society&q...I recall the movie "Dead Poet's society" expressed this deconstruction in the opening scene, where Robin Williams' character told the students to rip out pages from their required text books that told reductive lies about what poetry was.<br /><br />I also remember the story was a sort of calling against conformity, and one scene where he asked to boys to walk in a circle and soon they started all marching lockstep. So he wasn't saying this conformity was bad, only that we all should be aware when we're just following everyone else, and know we're making a choice.<br /><br />And the tragedy of the story came as Williams' encouraged a creative young man to follow his passions in art and the theater, and his father didn't accept this, was afraid that this passion wouldn't lead to gainful employment, and the son shoots himself in the head in the end. Stuart also counsels sensibly against "follow your bliss" as bad advice, while apparently the true is it does work for a lucky minority.<br /><br />I'm a solid data-driven person myself, but I hope the arts and humanities still have some humanity left after the deconstructionists have tried to ruin it. I hope that brave souls will continue doing their creative works there, taking in the great works of the past, and finding their own way to add to that. And I hope they don't have to live a life of celibate poverty with a lifetime of debt to do that, although I'm sure many would accept that trade off. <br /><br />I can't guess if or where universities can still teach the right things, but it makes sense if we can identify the ones that do, and promote and copy them.<br /><br />Perhaps its the "publish or perish" quantification of success that is ruining us? Perhaps standing on the shoulders of giants is simply too much of a burden to bear for most average souls who survive the passage through graduate school?<br /><br />Probably the key thing to realize is that all institutions are soulless, except for the souls that make them alive, and it take boldness to accept the purpose of higher education is more than just making yourself smarter than everyone else.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50876915979888187392016-12-14T17:12:32.020-08:002016-12-14T17:12:32.020-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57321796826740663852016-12-14T08:12:07.375-08:002016-12-14T08:12:07.375-08:00I'd like to see Karl Marx's Das Kapital de...I'd like to see Karl Marx's Das Kapital deconstructed. Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58451517762420280312016-12-14T06:30:04.295-08:002016-12-14T06:30:04.295-08:00"Two cheers for the college students who are ..."Two cheers for the college students who are fleeing humanities courses. Apparently, more and more of them are doing so. It’s the free market at work. And a beautiful sight it is."<br /><br />I find it very sad, actually. I do not cheer. But it is the natural economic consequence when the humanities is divorced from human truth. That brings me to anger, as it is yet another ideological injustice foisted on a generation because of, as you do aptly said, pogroms. <br /><br />And I'm also with TW... I can't wait to see those ideological crusaders for human truth (today's professoriate) line up to deconstruct the Koran and do some deep critical analysis of Mohammed. When life is on the line, we're able to separate talk from choice. Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12818594023742547692016-12-14T06:21:38.355-08:002016-12-14T06:21:38.355-08:00I'm waiting for someone to deconstruct The Kor...I'm waiting for someone to deconstruct <i>The Koran</i>.<br /><br />But I'd settle for an historical-critical exegesis. Turn about is fair play. ;-)Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.com