02-21-2017, 09:39 AM
The politicians do not really care about the ideology of people teaching animal husbandry. accounting, mechanical engineering, or petroleum geology. There's no politics in such activities. Philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, and history -- that is where a professor might introduce some ideas contradicting the pure plutocracy that the economic sadists who dominate the Republican Party want to impose upo0n us all. These people may not want fascism because fascism implies the risk of thermonuclear war; a new feudalism is the objective.
Consider that one of the biggest groups of college graduates is schoolteachers. That's a rather liberal group of people in politics, if not personal lifestyles. That's where the Hard Right really wants change, with civics classes teaching the virtues of hierarchy, regimentation, inequality, conformity, and exaggerated nationalism.
One might as well join $cientology, a comparatively tolerant, fun-loving, transparent, undemanding, and scrupulous entity by contrast. Now there is a scary comparison!
Academic freedom is essential for economic and technological progress, for keeping political life from spiraling into insanity, and for allowing political and even economic freedom.
Consider that one of the biggest groups of college graduates is schoolteachers. That's a rather liberal group of people in politics, if not personal lifestyles. That's where the Hard Right really wants change, with civics classes teaching the virtues of hierarchy, regimentation, inequality, conformity, and exaggerated nationalism.
One might as well join $cientology, a comparatively tolerant, fun-loving, transparent, undemanding, and scrupulous entity by contrast. Now there is a scary comparison!
Academic freedom is essential for economic and technological progress, for keeping political life from spiraling into insanity, and for allowing political and even economic freedom.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.