[MD] Do genes experience?

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Larz wrote]
As long we creators are forced to finance our destroyers in academia, obviously
there will be no philosophical renaissance.  If and when institutions of higher
learning are required to stand on their own feet, the humanities will naturally
begin to flower.  

[Arlo]
In what age have "institutions of higher learning" been required to stand on
their own feet? We are closer today, in America, to running our universities
like businesses. Every decision made here (in the acedemy) is reflective of
politics, bureaucracy and profit.

What "allegience" do you think the academy owes "the creators"? Should it have
been blind supporters of the monarchy and the princely castes during the
Renaisssance? Should the academy serve to indoctrinate youths into the power
structure of society, blindly and acritically?

Finally, as one who, as I've said, works in the academy, I find the
ideologically-driven caricature not only erroneous, but woefully political. No
one in the academy "hates business", or "wants people to live on welfare", and
as many promote "individual wealth" as those who promote "redistribution". But,
as with other neo-con's displayed inability to distinguish real and valid
criticism from "they hate our freedom", I can only assume that the higher one
waves his flag of righteousness, the more one demands the university to be a
"church of capitalism", with naught but blind patronage to the Neocon movement.

There are greater things in this world that static social manifestations of
wealth and power, or geological manifestations of static patterns called
"boundaries", or static ideological patterns that create illusions of
superiority, righteousness and "enemies of the state". It is the pendulum swing
towards right-wing zealotry that prohibits renaissance, if anything, for where
renaissance is concerned with open-minded dialogue, right-wing zealotry is only
concerned with blind obedience, blind "patriotism", blind allegience, and
self-righteous masturbation. That's what you want in the academy? What am I
saying, of course it is. Its the neocon way.

Arlo