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Brilliant, Hacker.
Philosophy is about, to me, not just reason...but about a way we put the world in perspective. Any good teacher wants to mold minds to learn how to do that. Like in law they taught us how to interpret a case, no right or wrong, just how does it fit. I never stuck within traditional molds of classic philosophy for that reason. As far as our leaders, I think we've had some wise leaders, but our system isn't set up for that....we're built to WIN. When you are built to win, someone in the system has to lose. That is a flaw that has to be changed before anything can be solved. Tonight I was talking to a friend and we thought we should just dump the whole thing and start over....a Noah's arc of the whole thing. Somewhere we became exactly what we fled from, but how to correct it? That's the real question. It doesn't lie with this President, I know that....another? Probably not since the system is flawed. Pretty sad, really. I think it will get worse before it gets better.
posted by
Temple
on July 30, 2005 at 2:05 AM
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I must agree in the praise given to this post. It is these factors you descrine which have lead to the dumbing down of society -- the notion that everyone can (and should) star in a reality program. Sometimes we must suspend our own emotions in order to see the light
posted by
Azur
on July 30, 2005 at 1:30 AM
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This was a great post.
Other than that, I have no opinion about it of any value.
posted by
CunningLinguist
on July 28, 2005 at 3:42 PM
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Hacker
Boy did you hit a vital subject in the first part of this post. Some of what is happening in classrooms now is the phenomenon you describe. Everyone wants to be heard, feels entitled to be heard and believes that his or her own faith, beliefs, feelings, if not honored or respected to their satisfaction by the professor, gives them the right, indeed the duty to argue with the professor--not about content, but about ideology. The far right Christian conservatives encourage this shit. I don't think professors are omniscient, and some are downright boring or opinionated in the extreme, which is not a proper spur for education. I remember some who would come in and read from the same notes they'd been using for twenty years! Nevertheless, students are there to learn, not perform. I lke the touch about the creative writing class! Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on July 28, 2005 at 3:20 PM
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