The State of liberal arts
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Date: October 8th, 2024 10:55 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/IkQnGlr
IIRC it's all based on some artificial system invented by Max Weber. In the tree of knowledge, lib farts were held to be anthro, history, literature/art/ethnomusicology etc.
Sociology emerged out of actual Marxist ideology. I shudder when I remember learning what goes on in those classes. Paulo Freire describing illiteracy as a form of peasant rebellion? They read all his books.
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Date: October 8th, 2024 9:51 PM Author: Institute for JDVanced Study
It's in an early stage of total collapse.
Most liberal arts segments are losing their share of the dwindling enrollments to business and stem, or to victim studies programs. The latter are not for liberal arts; they're much more like seminaries
And new students just don't read books anymore. They'll have to be carried through dumbed-down majors and grad school won't be an option.
As the grad school ranks dwindle, it'll then be a downward spiral
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Date: October 8th, 2024 10:26 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/IkQnGlr
It's unfortunate because there's some cool stuff happening on the margins. One of my friends is an anthropology prof, but instead of doing normal gay anthro shit he specializes in "economic anthropology." What he does is get interviews with all these people who run global finance institutions. He asks them about their personal beliefs, their religious backgrounds, what motivates them to do certain things, etc.
These people totally let their guard down with him in ways they never would for any other outsider. He's showing up with these flashy academic credentials from America and he's a mutt himself, so people from all these other countries will sit and talk to him.
Then he writes books about what's going on inside these institutions, and it costs $38.99 (he gets 1/10 of a penny) so people read zerohedge instead.
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