Why didn’t more professors oppose the Gramscian march or at least stick up for free speech? (NewNeo)
(4) For the most part, professors are people who have done well in school and never left it, staying to take on more power and prestige within that setting. Therefore I don’t think they are selected for courage, or for even necessarily for thinking for themselves (with exceptions, of course). For the most part, they have been very good at taking in information and then giving it back again, perhaps with a small advancement on current knowledge in a very circumscribed field. So there may be more people in academia who are selected for conformity, and they are less likely to buck the prevailing winds.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my world. It all ultimately goes back to my assertion years ago that the intellectuals are still having a hissy-fit that the Age of Reason did not end with them becoming philosopher-kings, but with the rise of industrialists. Of course, now that they are moving to control the institutions, they are becoming the very aristocracy (complete with birthrights!) their ancestors wanted gone. If they're lucky, they will realize their mistake before the Montagnards show up.
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