Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Paglia on fire

6 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Pepe in a nutshell: But affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer taught. Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it's invisible. The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote "critical thinking," which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms ("racism, sexism, homophobia") when confronted with any social issue. The Democratic brain has been marinating so long in those clichés that it's positively pickled.

Mr roT said...

Fun:

Thankfully, they do seem to be falling faster -- as witness the middle-of-the-night bum's rush given to "green jobs" czar Van Jones last week -- but there's a long way to go.

Mr roT said...

BTW, Tecs did you make your your title smarty smarty on purpose?

Tecumseh said...

How so?

Mr roT said...

Paglia = paille catches fire, O Freudianly witty.

Tecumseh said...

Aha, now I get it. Sometimes, you are too deep for me, Mr Rot.