Closing of the American Mind: Failure of American Higher Ed

Some salient quotes from Allen Bloom's book "The Closing of the American Mind"

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• Mrcropper
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• postmodernism
• philosophy

[vos360]

Thank you MrCropper, that was a breath of fresh air. However, what is your take on Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of perspectivism?

[MrCropper]

"what is your take on Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of perspectivism?"

I've never heard of it, unless you're talking about it in terms I haven't heard. Where did you hear that term?...

[underdog3]

I have that book except its hollowed out and I use it to hid things.

What makes you an expert on intellectualism?

[MrCropper]

"What makes you an expert on intellectualism?"

Anyone watching me who concurs.

[CadicusTheDamned]

Philosophy is sort of worthless these days.

I prefer science. It produces technology and is understandable.

[MrCropper]

"Philosophy is sort of worthless these days.

I prefer science. It produces technology and is understandable."

Even science isn't safe from the nonsense:

watch?v=HdkJZAy3pb4

[Birdtrooper]

OMFG thank you, finally someone else acknowledges those contradictions, particularly the one about absolutism

[i2aymond]

"Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended."

[oshory]

@verwoestijning It's private

[timray99]

young man....amen....my hand is on my heart.....it is well to see the fire still burns

[KevZen2000]

Post-modernism, is just another superstition, that we hold today. This is the typical college nonsense, that is coming out of the 'educational system,' which is more about indoctrinating the youth to believe in something, to make them easier to control. If you believe in post-modernism, you're likely to believe in almost everything.

[Randemonium1]

@MrCropper How can you quote Bloom, when you don't understand Nietzsche's ideas?

[haupper]

"Postmodernists are ghosts attacking castles of stone." HA! that's very funny.

[grandmasterqz]

Though I found some truth to what Baudrillard states in his book, intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact, Postmodernists in general try to mold reality into their preconceived notions of it.

[combustible420]

The issue lies in the education. FreeDUMB robbed the people. Phreesmart can help a person get it back. If one wishes to control what isn't much of a self-controlled thing any more(the mind), they should heed my words. Copy a dictionary and become ambidextrous. Seriously folks, ilk, kin, kine of the pastures. The realest time right now is noW. So go and win it. Life is standing and waiting for you all the time. Go and get it. This dude is speaking truth, I, on the other, am just typing it. go now

[oik2]

You are a dumbass

[MrNobleSavagery]

And we all know what happens when Heidegger is implemented upon Rand; Rand goes bye bye.

What is even better is that Bloom provides a lucid account of how the Left assimilated/appropriated/raped Nietzsche and Heidegger into its amoeba. Whats great about this insight is that it assists one's understanding of how the Foucaults and those who utilized Derrida for the sake of equality--contemporary leftists--are frauds because beneath the surface they are perpetually crying for the death of Marx.

[MrNobleSavagery]

MrCropper; in heavily relying upon Bloom to--lets be honest--to support your accusations against the current academia--which are born out of Randian Objectivism--there is an extremely important point that you did not bring up, but which should.

In this same book, Allan Bloom also understood that Martin Heidegger's teachings are the most powerful intellectual force of our times.