was there a particular moment in your history program when you realized that your classes were trying to teach politically approved narratives rather than make you a competent student?
>>18555848imagine the absolute wreck of a human that decided to put together and teach this course
I was raised by a paranoid schizophrenic who always always told me that if someone is telling you something or doing something, its because they have an agenda, so I already went into university with the mindset of expecting that people are trying to manipulate me. It's a bad mindset to have, but a broken clock is also right twice a day. Not perfectly so, but sufficiently so.1. College kids are young, dumb and impressionable. They have also never seriously thought about anything.2. College profs teach the same stale biased perspectives evolutionarily selected via peer pressure and government/private grants.3. College students imbibe these perspective uncritically and mistake exploring the walled garden they are in for genuine intellectual exploration.4. These college kids eventually become the next generation of profs perpetuating the same set of stale old perspectives. My obsessive desire to form my own perspective and not succumb to the interpretations the materials I was being taught pointed to helped me retain my independence and develop genuine critical analytical thinking, and what is more, synthetic thinking. I still believe that my chuddy views are correct, too, in contrast to the stale old stuff I was being taught. But I don't think the university system is intentionally designed to propagandise people any more, I think it just works that way functionally because of its low adaptability, no access to new perspectives, selective pressures from funding sources and government, pressures from ideological lecturers, and even pressures from the student body itself.
>>18555925mark is a career leftist parasite whose sole, publicly funded, job is socializing young people into marxism while writing books glamorizing it. The problem isn't that marxist study groups exist, it's that they are being pipelined to ordinary people under the guise of being pseudo academichttps://www.sfu.ca/history/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-name/mark-leier.html
