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Subject: | "Academics are sowing seeds of hatred." |
Date: | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:56:34 -0500 |
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Quantonics, Inc. Suite 18 #368 1950 East Greyhound Pass Carmel, INdiana 46033-7730 USA 1-317-THOUGHT |
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To: | Washington Times <FlameProof@twtmail.com> |
Dear National Weekly Editor,
Paul Craig Roberts' recent commentary in "The Washington
Times'"
12-18Apr1999 weekly edition, on 'Academics are sowing seeds of
hatred,'
elicits dark feelings about something deeply wrong in our Western
culture.
Is something wrong? Is it what Mr. Roberts claims?
Roberts tells us gender wars are causing hatred between men
and women.
He tells us Marx induces hatred: good workers versus bad
capitalists. He
complains intellectual lesbian feminists villainize heterosexuals
to spread
hatred: gays in opposition to straights and vice versa.
Roberts describes liberal academia's depiction of Western culture
as a
mighty hate generator whose purpose is to split Earth's people
into elite
white and non elite people of color.
Roberts shares his perceptions with us stimulated by his own
horror that
Dartmouth College prevented free distribution of C.S. Lewis' 'Mere
Christianity' to students.
Yet identical symptoms to ones he abhors in liberal academia
also affect his
own Christianity.
We can list countless examples of Christianity's inquisitions,
political
correctness impositions, wars between Protestants and Catholics,
and wars
between Christians and non Christians.
These are symptoms of a disease, not the disease!
Hate is a symptom, not
a disease!
Do you see a theme here? Isn't there an underlying common thread
here?
Isn't Roberts just talking about effects? Isn't he avoiding discussion
about a
more fundamental problem?
What is it, this more fundamental problem? What vile thing
constitutes and
causes countless examples of hate he describes? Roberts tells
us certain
doctrines are vile. However, we may intuit vile doctrines too
are symptoms
of some other, deeper, undisclosed problem!
Go back look at his commentary
and our words above. You will see
words like: Balkanization, negation, deconstruction, denunciation,
between,
versus, opposition, split, etc.
Roberts does not want to admit it, but Western culture is a
sick, either/or
culture! Western culture is a 'versus' culture. It began over
2.5 millennia ago.
Western culture teaches simplistic dichotomous thought to all
- Christians,
classicists, post modernists, everyone:
True vs. false. Male vs. female. Queer vs. straight. Love vs.
hate. Black vs.
white. Good vs. bad. Right vs. wrong, and so on...
Both classical culture and post modernism, indeed all Western
ISMs, share
a common schismatic disease. All are ill! Yes, their common
illness spreads,
as Roberts fears, via academia. It spreads equally well in both
warring
classical and post modernist schools. Yet
each acts like it is well and argues
that its opponent has a disease.
Now we know. We
have two
major factions fighting
a war about a disease
both have, each
only detecting symptoms, and blaming their opponent. As
long as both share one disease, neither will win any culture war.
Until we
eradicate this disease, we shall continue our lose-lose culture
wars.
Thanks for reading.
Best and kindest regards,
Doug.
PS - 21Apr1999 - Not only does academia sow more hate, it also
sows more nitwit
graduates with inflated GPAs. Baccalaureate grade inflation is
going exponential.
See Front Page Magazine article.
Businesses take note. You cannot trust GPAs anymore. You have
to test fresh
graduates to see if they know their stuff. If the government says,
"No testing,"
tell the government to shove it! If you are afraid to do that,
put the freshouts on
3-6 month temporary or part-time status and find out what they
can do.
Quality businesses still measure their value as the aggregate
capability of their
people. Every incapable person you hire cancels one of your capable
ones.
Doug Renselle
1-317-THOUGHT
"Coupled cycles are the ultimate wisdom of nature."
By Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, in the Rainbow and the Worm, p. 49, World Scientific, 1993, paperback.