Blanket thinking
Why are the majority of politicians graduates from Humanities course at University, in the UK
both on the Conservative and the Labour side they almost wholly did their degrees in PPE or History.
Does this make them astute thinkers or just good wafflers, rhetoricians who rule us.
For the scientist Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a ‘great book’ and nothing more, for the Humanities student it is a vehicle to delve into the 'good' and the 'bad'. These humanities seminars will almost wholly be led by left thinking Professors/Lecturers. Yet the 'left' certainly in the UK is redundant, times have moved on and the Labour Party will no doubt in the next decade will shrivel into non-existence, which is not the best thing for UK democracy as a vibrant opposition is required.
The left (bless) blankets thinking while the populace are seeking a quilt not a blanket.
To lapse into a writerly mode (this will make them sit up etc) are the humanities doing to
our student thinking what crack cocaine is doing in the city streets?
The Lecturers with Nero with Nero-like insouciance, declare
‘there is no such thing as literal meaning ... there is no such thing as intrinsic merit’
while collecting huge salaries and threatening strike action if impeded (it is only the privileged
who march these days) . Although over the top and bordering on a rant, it is claimed Humanities – particularly literature and history departments –
are the sore from which this pus principally emanates.
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Why is the canon mainly a Humanities problem? (Scientists don’t agonise about their great texts being predominantly Anglo-European.)
both on the Conservative and the Labour side they almost wholly did their degrees in PPE or History.
Does this make them astute thinkers or just good wafflers, rhetoricians who rule us.
For the scientist Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a ‘great book’ and nothing more, for the Humanities student it is a vehicle to delve into the 'good' and the 'bad'. These humanities seminars will almost wholly be led by left thinking Professors/Lecturers. Yet the 'left' certainly in the UK is redundant, times have moved on and the Labour Party will no doubt in the next decade will shrivel into non-existence, which is not the best thing for UK democracy as a vibrant opposition is required.
The left (bless) blankets thinking while the populace are seeking a quilt not a blanket.
To lapse into a writerly mode (this will make them sit up etc) are the humanities doing to
our student thinking what crack cocaine is doing in the city streets?
The Lecturers with Nero with Nero-like insouciance, declare
‘there is no such thing as literal meaning ... there is no such thing as intrinsic merit’
while collecting huge salaries and threatening strike action if impeded (it is only the privileged
who march these days) . Although over the top and bordering on a rant, it is claimed Humanities – particularly literature and history departments –
are the sore from which this pus principally emanates.
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