I have been spending alittle more time on Facebook since the discuss has declined in posts and I see the "evidence" if the de-evolution everywhere. For example there had been an raid ode where a bible was banned in a classroom, the students were allowed to do some silent reading of what ever they wished. A student pulled out the Bible . It was banned on the grounds that it may offend other students. There was an immediate shit storm of controversy based on The place of religion in school. What was missed was the outrage it should have caused concerning intellectual censorship. Another quick example was how on a site dedicated to science mostly concerned itself with bashing Christian contributors and mostly combating theism, both sides arguing their own conception of truth as absolute and irrefutable. This has been just a small sample of what seems to be the popular general Standing situation in American society and it's a bit worrisome. -Ron
> On May 2, 2014, at 8:18 PM, david <[email protected]> wrote: > > “I have decided to preach intellectual modesty for the rest of my days. There > is a tradition, an enormously strong tradition of intellectual immodesty and > irresponsibility. Around the year 1930 I told a joke. I said that many > students don't go to university assuming that it is a great empire of > knowledge, in the hope to gain some understanding; but that they go to > university to learn how to speak in an impressive and incomprehensible way. > This is the tradition of intellectualism. At the time I thought it was a > joke. But having become a university professor myself, I have perceived with > horror that it is a reality. That's the way things are, unfortunately. In > universities there is a tradition that legitimizes this attitude, it is the > tradition of hegelianism. Especially in Germany, Hegel is extraordinarily > admired. People really believe that Hegel was a great philosopher because he > used big words. And it is exactly this incredible immodesty that destroys so > much in and between intellectuals. I would like to spend my last years > fighting against this. I want to start a new fashion. I have always fought > against fashions, and I have never followed any fashion, and I have never > tried to start one. But I would love to start a new fashion of intellectual > modesty, of permanent thought of everything we don't know.“ -- Karl Popper > > "Hegel had talked like this, with his Absolute Mind. Absolute Mind was > independent too, both of objectivity and subjectivity. However, Hegel said > the Absolute Mind was the source of everything, but then it excluded romantic > experience from the 'everything' it was the source of. Hegel's Absolute was > completely classical, completely rational and completely orderly. Quality > was not like that." (ZAMM 252) > This is consistent with the comments he made 17 years later, where DQ "is not > a social code or some intellectualized Hegelian Absolute. It is direct > everyday experience." (Lila, 366) > > Pre-intellectual experience is the key to Pirsig's root expansion of > rationality. > But a post-intellectual society is the road to totalitarianism and the > devolution of human culture. > I don't think Ian is post-intellectual so much as anti-intellectual. > Politically and socially speaking, there's not much difference. > > [Ian] >> You've had >> Post-structuralism. >> You've had >> Post-Modernism >> Thus side of the pond, we've even recently had >> Post-Christian >> What about >> Post-Intellectualism? > > > [Arlo] >> This has been done, no? Donald Wood wrote "Post-Intellectualism and the >> Decline of Democracy: The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the >> Twentieth Century" in 1996. >> >> From Amazon's site: Our society's institutional infrastructures—our >> democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and >> educational establishment—were all created as intellectual outgrowths of the >> Enlightenment. All our cultural institutions are based on the intellectual >> idea that an enlightened citizenry could govern its affairs with reason and >> responsibility. In the late 20th century, however, we are witnessing the >> disintegration of much of our cultural heritage. Wood argues that this is >> due to our evolution into a ^Upost-intellectual society^R—a society >> characterized by a loss of critical thinking, the substitution of >> information for knowledge, mediated reality, increasing illiteracy, loss of >> privacy, specialization, psychological isolation, hyper-urbanization, moral >> anarchy, and political debilitation. These post-intellectual realities are >> all triggered by three underlying determinants: the failure of linear growth >> and expansion to sustain our economic system; the runaway information >> overload; and technological determinism. Wood presents a new and innovative >> social theory, challenging readers to analyze all our post-intellectual >> cultural malaise in terms of these three fundamental determinants. > > > > > > 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 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
