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

[Platt Holden]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > Platt
> > Then there are those professors who base their course on a book they
> > have written and require their students to buy it, otherwise known as
> > a protection racket.
>
> [Mark]
> From my experience, academics is very insular and small minded.  This
> is not different from any other society formed by people.  There is
> strength in agreement, and distaste for intrusion.  There are of
> course many exceptions, but the herd mentality dominates.  I would
> also call you example above a "projection racket".  The brain washing
> of the main character in Clockwork Orange comes to mind.  A great
> movie, by the way.
>
> Platt
Yes. We see a couple of contributors here approving the "projection racket."
As for brainwashing, one only need poll the predominant
political orientation
of undergraduates to discover its overwhelming presence in academia.