How Universities Replaced Rational Inquiry with Political Activism
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This video discusses how our universities moved from a focus on learning, debate, and reason to activist political institutions.
You’re absolutely right in that these institutions have been teaching this garbage for years - why are they shocked that the chickens have come home to roost? Our educational institutions have been under attack for some time. 😢
Why this alarmist rhetoric? Attack? Schools exist to broaden minds, ask questions, create thinking ppl. Just because you don't like the consequences doesn't mean it's under attack. What do you think schools of higher learning are there for?
You're a little behind the times on it. There may be some Marxist and Marxian professors left but they're not the young professors. In the early 21st Century, the departments that had been dominated by Marxists and Marxians, such as women's studies, African studies, labor studies, etc. began replacing retiring professors with young Identity Theory driven professors. From the right they might not look much different, but look at the controversy at Tenple University around Anthony Monteiro. Identity Theorists are not in any way shape or form a challenge to the economic structure of the university as corporation. As such they raise no resistance to the increase of adjuncts over the past decade. They see for instance race and avoid discussing economics, happy to serve wealthy suburban African Americans, or the same with gender, etc. The purpose of hiring Marxists and Marxian theorists after WWIi, that of getting these theorists out of the union meetings, was realized and there was no reason to hire them anymore.
I would disagree on Marxism affecting these movements or even that it is anything "new". Universities have long been and continue to be places of protest. For but one pre-Marxist example, one can look toward the 1832 Paris Revolution popularized by Les Miserables. Even prior to that, armed/violent rebellions started in universities were not uncommon in the German and French reformations. I do agree that they happen when students feel they are not heard or that an injustice is being ignored, but it is not original or endemic to Marxist professors or philosophies. Rather, they seem to grow from "the new" (students) who must confront the reality that they now know exists. When "the new" have no outlet to enact change, and are ignored by "the old" who cannot or will not enact change, it creates a conflict.
So well said! I was a humanities undergrad from 07-11 & I recall a general indirect disdain for past knowledge. There was a general distrust of “old thinking” as patriarcal, outdated, etc. All that was trusted was contemporary Postmodern-Deconstructionist thought.
The postmodernists were Nazis during WWII. The Marxists were in concentration camps. They may look the same from the right, but they're not. Marxists don't focus on identity. Rather they challenge the economic structure of the university and are mostly not in universities.
This was an excellent overview. It reminds me how thankful I am that I will be going into Mathematics academia and not some part of the humanities. I've already had to deal with a lot of this revolutionary critical theory stuff and it makes me sad.
I did the same. Changed my undergrads from Politics to Mathematics. It was refreshing to go somewhere where learning was valued above activism.
Math is racist lol
Have you ever made a video on Wittemberg. University movement in Luther times?
Marcuse: “Trust the plan.”
Marxist eschatology is very interesting. Hm.
I have a question Dr. Cooper; I want to study Theology in college and I've been trying to find colleges that have good theology programs. Do you have any recommendations for colleges I should look at?
What theological tradition are you in?
@@DrJordanBCooper I'm technically non-denom right now, but I've been looking into Anglicanism Lutheranism and the Reformed. I'd be a part of one of those by now but there no good churches near me, sadly
Fly up to 33,000 ft and take a view. Just the beginning of all of our basic infrastructure suffering through institutional stress tests. In real time you get to see where the cracks and flaws are.
Yeah, just don't do it in a Boeing 🤣
@@regpharvey ha.. on Angels wings
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How does your view differ from this view about power struggles or whatever. Clearly these people are excercising power to do what they believe to be justice pure and simple.
Naive
Aren't we against oppression? I mean why wouldn't the study of oppressive structures be good? Why is action against that bad?
TL:DW - Satan is very good at what he does, and he's patient enough to get it done.
I am quite disappointed that you have not come out more against what has been displayed on some campuses that are not less bigoted than what appeared in "Vom Schem Hamphoras". Another author correctly wrote: "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing". I always thought of you as a good man. Please do not let me down.
That author would be Dietrich Bonhoffer
@@soupeverywhere9565 It would be great to hear Dr. Cooper reply to my original comment. I also emailed him directly, but have not heard back. I understand he is busy but this is a very important and relevant issue, especially since he is physically on a university campus. Very disappointing but thank you for your comment.
His premise is that no one protesting is real. It’s all a guess what ?…… a conspiracy!! Insert spooky music
Once society rejects Christianity and its eschatology, its only hope is earthly utopia. I believe what we see today are various efforts at perfectionism, which only eternity truly offers.
Perfectionism could nota come from pietism?
@@magnobraga4619 Yes, pietism leads to various ideas of perfectionism, such as those of Wesley and the second work of grace sects. But these Christians still have a final perfection outside this life. Secular Marxists do not have that, and so must strive for utopia in this world alone.
The only rational thing is to oppose the genocide, and to ask that universities divest from support in foreign powers displacing and dispossessing a whole people. Rationality leads to action and action leads to change. To sit in an armchair "rationalizing", keeping up some poor man's idea of civility has little value.
A la the Radical Reformation
Or students and people with a conscious see and oppose genocide. My challenge to be like Maximilian Kobe, Sophie Scholl, Edith Stein witnesses who where not blind to genocide. Where were we as Christians as students or humans when the Gaza genocide unfolded? #PalestineChristians
This is why I come to you tube , for the comedy 🎭 this guys level of ignorance and arrogance is astounding 😅
Spoiler: the gentlemen let it happen, because they couldnt forestall the rot while remaining polite and classy.