tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post6043256139093118038..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Profs Bad; Regents WorseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-43335968662593074912007-11-04T20:37:00.000-05:002007-11-04T20:37:00.000-05:00So long as the professors have unlimited job secur...So long as the professors have unlimited job security provided by tenure, there will be unlimited abuse of everyone else. Academics know that there are no consequences for bad behavior. The tenure system sets up a self perpetuating aristocracy that cannot be reformed without destroying the system.<BR/><BR/>Academic freedom has become an excuse for academic abuse. Unless academics have to compete for jobs like everyone else, they will be tempted to act like a compromise between gang lords and the children of robber barons.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16967895317156770810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-37017019278112612222007-11-04T09:14:00.000-05:002007-11-04T09:14:00.000-05:00One Antonio Gramsci seems to have succeeded. Per ...One Antonio Gramsci seems to have succeeded. Per Wikipedia: "he claimed that modern intellectuals were not simply talkers, but directors and organisers who helped build society and produce hegemony by means of ideological apparatuses such as education and the media."<BR/><BR/>Does anyone doubt that this hegemony is largely in place today?<BR/><BR/>Taylor and Johnson had done society a major service in illuminating precisely how corrosive and widespread the process is among education and media people. The battle's not wholly lost - some educational and media people have belatedly recognized that the PC hegemonists of the lynch mob were anything but liberals respecting the UW Constution. But the initial stampede shows how well the Gramsci process has advanced in dominating the gut feelings of our lordly 'intellectuals'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-90794001191606222682007-11-04T06:29:00.000-05:002007-11-04T06:29:00.000-05:00Anonymous said... "This phenomenon is becoming ...Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/> "<I>This phenomenon is becoming commonplace. How can it be halted?</I>"<BR/><BR/> It's just going to get worse. A lot worse. Ever more brainwashed cohorts are being supplied by the K-12 system.<BR/><BR/> Stopping it would be like stopping an avalanche.<BR/><BR/> Like the MSM all anyone can do is avoid it as much as possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-66668814567944142612007-11-04T05:32:00.000-05:002007-11-04T05:32:00.000-05:00Bill: This phenomenon is becoming commonplace. Ho...Bill: This phenomenon is becoming commonplace. How can it be halted? I wonder why anyone would want his child to be exposed to such destructive people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-72658588769030785142007-11-03T23:15:00.000-04:002007-11-03T23:15:00.000-04:00Truly, truly pathetic. These are thoroughly destr...Truly, truly pathetic. These are thoroughly destructive people. It is not hard to understand the mentality of the G88 when you see jackasses like these people in action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-21657666382893032992007-11-03T22:11:00.000-04:002007-11-03T22:11:00.000-04:00Over at DIW there has been a discussion of terms f...Over at DIW there has been a discussion of terms for what we're seeing in higher education. Personally, I like the notion of "thought police" and "mind righting"- both seem applicable at UC Davis.<BR/>TexasMomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com