AUT: Re: Academia....

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Hi autopsy,
just want to get my two cents in on the academia
debate that seems to have morphed into something else
(like everything thread on the list), but anyway i'm
surprised no one has advocated the position that EVERY
academic department is wholly reactionary... it took
me quite sometime to figure this out, but i think that
was because i'd been trapped on university campuses
for four years! there's a whole world out there with
real social issues, people dying, emperors starting
wars, etc, etc... the university is just like a little
gated community on mountaintop insulated from all the
stuff outside of where the class struggles, ecological
devastation, fight for control of resources,
extermination of native populations etc., etc. is
taking place... every once in awhile (or all the time
with the really 'radical' profs) some of these issues
are paraded out in front of the student body/given the
spotlight, and it's really unclear what else can be
done further than discussing the issues and writing
eloquently penned critiques of the unjust
situations...

i'm not saying i'm not ever going to go to a
university again, i'm just saying take the education
with a grain a salt, i mean i basically view
university as the training ground for the ruling class
and their sycophants; there's a reason why even the
most radical academics aren't reading and teaching
things like the texts on a lot of the far left
websites that are plugged on this list all the time...
it's because their radicalism is limited by an
incomplete critique of both society and it's
institutions, reactionary elements that have been
grandfathered into control of their discipline, and
their own inability to reach outside the ivory tower
to engage in the real movements of the day that will
destroy the present state of things.
love and rage,
-Sean


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