In the email version I changed professor Hinton's name to Harris about two thirds of the way through. Fixed here on site. Harris is a fine last name, though. I think we have a vice president with that last name.
Excellent review. The statement that "it's pretty damn hard if not impossible to acknowledge" the necessity of overthrowing capitalism and retain one's "position and status in elite academia" is surely dead on - but you might well delete "elite" and make the assertion still more accurate.
Well, I'm not sure saying "elite" means embrace of the notion that Yale, Harvard, and Princeton et al are actually better than the rest of higher ed but I get your point. When I was in and around academia, I was always darkly amused by how ready the rest of higher ed was to bow down and kiss the ass of the "best" ruling class academic institutions, which provide sinecures and strategy for a host of war criminals and other ruling class defilers of life and humanity!
In the email version I changed professor Hinton's name to Harris about two thirds of the way through. Fixed here on site. Harris is a fine last name, though. I think we have a vice president with that last name.
Excellent review. The statement that "it's pretty damn hard if not impossible to acknowledge" the necessity of overthrowing capitalism and retain one's "position and status in elite academia" is surely dead on - but you might well delete "elite" and make the assertion still more accurate.
Well, I'm not sure saying "elite" means embrace of the notion that Yale, Harvard, and Princeton et al are actually better than the rest of higher ed but I get your point. When I was in and around academia, I was always darkly amused by how ready the rest of higher ed was to bow down and kiss the ass of the "best" ruling class academic institutions, which provide sinecures and strategy for a host of war criminals and other ruling class defilers of life and humanity!
Yes indeed...that's the fourth book on my review list for the rest of the summer. Yes, there's no social justice or democracy on a dead planet.