One thing I meant to relate re: anti-intellectualism. I had a work conversation one time about stuff we studied in college. I had a comp sci degree but also took a lot of philosophy courses. Too many tech courses of study have little-to-no requirements for humanities and I wanted something that was completely away from technology.
One thing I meant to relate re: anti-intellectualism. I had a work conversation one time about stuff we studied in college. I had a comp sci degree but also took a lot of philosophy courses. Too many tech courses of study have little-to-no requirements for humanities and I wanted something that was completely away from technology.
The guy who I was talking to, fairly conservative, said that he thought that philosophy was "just a bunch of hippie-dippy bullshit."
I am old enough to remember the Life magazine photos of the liberation of German prison camps. In Munich (1973), there was still mountain of débris left over from the war. There for a LSUNO summer school, four of us took a week-end planing to go to Dachau on our way to Rothenburg. After we left the camp, no one mentioned the experience of being there—not a word. Two years later, while teaching an advanced French lit class, I found myself speaking about Dachau to a class who knew nothing of the camps. As we watch the Russians in Ukraine, those of us who remember Stalin or who have read Timothy Snyder on Russian camps (or even Alan Furst’s novel with an account of a Siberian “work camp”) or paid attention to Navalny, have no idea what we can be in for as serfs of Trump/Putin. But there is Santayana’s warning.
Dear Heaven! This is not only shocking, but also disgusting. Thank you for this post. Now I have direct evidence that universities truly are job training with no liberal arts aspirations. Now my fear of the disintegration of the country is increased. Give thanks for the humanity of the president and remind your friends of Santayana’s words (on a small
desk as I left Dachau—I’m assuming you know Dachau, one of the first extermination camps in Germany, 1930’s-
One thing I meant to relate re: anti-intellectualism. I had a work conversation one time about stuff we studied in college. I had a comp sci degree but also took a lot of philosophy courses. Too many tech courses of study have little-to-no requirements for humanities and I wanted something that was completely away from technology.
The guy who I was talking to, fairly conservative, said that he thought that philosophy was "just a bunch of hippie-dippy bullshit."
So there you have it.
-1945):”Those who do not remember the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them.”
Sorry for the blundering finger and again thanks for your post.
Yes. And curiously, just yesterday I finished a long-overdue re-read of "The Diary of Anne Frank"
I am old enough to remember the Life magazine photos of the liberation of German prison camps. In Munich (1973), there was still mountain of débris left over from the war. There for a LSUNO summer school, four of us took a week-end planing to go to Dachau on our way to Rothenburg. After we left the camp, no one mentioned the experience of being there—not a word. Two years later, while teaching an advanced French lit class, I found myself speaking about Dachau to a class who knew nothing of the camps. As we watch the Russians in Ukraine, those of us who remember Stalin or who have read Timothy Snyder on Russian camps (or even Alan Furst’s novel with an account of a Siberian “work camp”) or paid attention to Navalny, have no idea what we can be in for as serfs of Trump/Putin. But there is Santayana’s warning.
Mark, I just looked up Furst’s novel. It’s “Night Soldiers.” I recommend it for an easy and fascinating way to European history 1934-44.
Mark, read all the way down if you have time.
Dear Heaven! This is not only shocking, but also disgusting. Thank you for this post. Now I have direct evidence that universities truly are job training with no liberal arts aspirations. Now my fear of the disintegration of the country is increased. Give thanks for the humanity of the president and remind your friends of Santayana’s words (on a small
desk as I left Dachau—I’m assuming you know Dachau, one of the first extermination camps in Germany, 1930’s-