[MD] Do genes experience?

[LARAMIE LOEWEN]

Dear Arlo,

Platt will be back soon enough.  You can wait until then to vent your hostility.

Cheers,
Larz
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Arlo J. Bensinger<mailto:ajb102 at psu.edu> 
  To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org<mailto:moq_discuss at moqtalk.org> 
  Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [MD] Do genes experience?


  [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
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