On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM, 118 <[email protected]> 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. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
