[MD] The Academy is Evil! Here's what I'd do instead...

[david buchanan]

Got fired for your crackpot ideas, didn't you? And you take that to mean that the whole world is wrong and you're right. Huh?
Like I said, the immune system is there for a reason. You sir, are exhibit "A" in the case for strict academic standards.

> 
> Hi dmb,
> 
> Are you kidding me?  How many academic professionals do you know?  You
> are operating in a dream world, dmb.  I don't even feel like setting you
> straight.  I suppose if you agree with the way academics is going, then you
> are part of the problem.  Do you think continuing tenure is based on
> intellectual qualities?   Perhaps you spent too much time in the ivory
> tower.  Maybe you want to become a professor.  Well, if you can't do, then
> you teach, so it may be appropriate.  Get out now and again, it might do you
> good.  Please don't insult us with your naivete.  It makes this forum
> look ridiculous.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:38 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > John said:
> > ...I'm certainly not a fan of any kind of "anything goes" mentality which
> > throws open the doors to any nutjob with a holy book and an agenda. ...But
> > the wholesale adoption of a values-free worldview, and the almost
> > police-state-like imposition of this worldview has crippled true
> > intellectual debate and growth oughta be checked somehow.
> >
> > dmb says:
> > Police state-like imposition of a values-free worldview? That doesn't sound
> > like a fair criticism of academia. It sounds more like a paranoid conspiracy
> > theory. In the real world, I think it would be hard to find an academic
> > professional who did not rate academic freedom as one the their most
> > cherished ideals. The ability to think independently, critically and
> > creatively are the things that earn respect in that that world. To the
> > extent that intellectuals get famous or earn a good reputation, it's based
> > on intellectual qualities. And what's wrong with that? Why shouldn't we
> > value good thinking and good ideas? If there is a better way to do it,
> > nobody has thought of it yet. But you can bet your bottom dollar that there
> > is a small tribe of scholars working on that question too.
> >
> > Police state, my ass. Try to find any institution that's more open to new
> > ideas or more concerned with intellectual freedom. I honestly can't think of
> > one single example. Can you?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> >
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