Resentment worldview is always defeated
Academics are like musicians and artists. They live in their own little bubble and think that everyone in the real world believes they’re special. Similar to the arts, education has an important place in society, but its collectivist voice has negatively impacted modern American culture. Primarily, I am speaking of the current public debate over Critical Race Theory. I ask, rhetorically, what platform would Western academics be given in North Korea, Afghanistan or other truly oppressive countries to develop such a corrupt political framework! Talk about biting the hand that feeds.
The average American stands at a disadvantage here due to the fact that they have no understanding of the academic history on this issue. The average American will never catch up to the volumes of social science claptrap produced over past decades. It’s a fool’s errand. The present culture war must be fought on different terms, terms that are distasteful to the radical leftists. Those terms include an outward love of the traditional family unit, pride in the American flag, a rejection of identity politics and collectivism. Ultimately, a worldview borne out of resentment has always been defeated by those higher “bourgeois” values.
James W. Smith
Saddened, angered by firing of Fiscus