Do you think that the world has gone bonkers because the humanities have been abandoned in favour of STEM?>Cut funding for the Arts and Humanities.>Technology and the economy has grown.>Yet, the system has worsened and people are becoming miserable regardless of the level of wealth attained.
How would investing more money in the arts and humanities reverse how bonkers the world has become?
>>25041433>it would be an ill day if men again let the classics go by the board; we should fall into something worse than, or as bad as, the counter-reformation: a welter of gum-shoes, and cocoa, and Y.M.C.A. and Webbs, and social theorizing committees, and the general hell of a groggy doctrinaire obfuscation; and the very disagreeablizing of the classics, every pedagogy which puts the masterwork further from us, either by obstructing the schoolboy, or breeding affectation in dilettante readers, works toward such a detestable end.
The humanities have not been abandoned. It was suicide. Arts and Humanities had already been dead for decades by the point funding started to be cut.
>>25041465Basically, this.I'm an older anon. Back in the 90s when I was deciding which subject to study, the Humanities were known as the "unserious disciplines populated by far left schizos out of contact with reality".I only learned there was something worth studying in the Humanities a decade after graduating from college.
The material condition far exceeds the romanticism for Humanities anon. Even if you and I don't like it, but a career in CS simply earns you more money.
>>25041433>>Cut funding for the Arts and Humanities.There is no need for it if your students are not cut for it
It's just no longer the best way to address concerns. We used to think knowing what truth is, is more important than knowing what is true. Today both questions would be considered totally pointless since the purpose of enquiry is to reach great material satisfaction. The ruling class of the past did not justify itself the same way as the ruling class of today, they ruled based on the premise that they were the highest quality of men, so their education was considered the duty of enriching their spirit. Today's ruling class rules based on the premise that they are the best at fulfilling our material satisfaction, or at entertaining us, and so their duty of education is to become better at making line go up and so on
Art and the humanities has been subverted long agoCutting the funding is more likely to cause a revolutionary golden era, as throwing more money at it would only be seen to advocate for more of the current state of things
>>25041433The humanities haven't been abandoned, they've been occupied by cultural Marxists.
People are more than welcome to fund those things on their own; and you are more than welcome to pursue them on your own.Colleges are oversaturated with degrees that needn't exist.
