Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "which subjects would survive the conservative cull in University? Business studies or philosophy?" video.

  1. Only if you believe what the above comment claims is true. Having studied in the Social Sciences disciplines, I'm very sceptical
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  2. The commodificatiin of education has created a tendentious link between economic value and the subjects studied. Only if you believe that the dominant ideology of the wealthy and powerful should determine everything, including how to understand reality, would you take this seriously. If you want to do that, you should critically examine the academic disciplines that the asset owners favour, and then consider the reality that the world that they have consciously create is one where no-one is guaranteed a job, or a. livelihood. There's a channel called "How Money Works" and they uploaded a video on "Manufactured Uncertainty" that discusses that point. Moreover, it's ironic also that these same people are interested in academic disciplines that claim to understand why and how society produces too many educated people, which in turn creates problems in society... I can't remember the name of this niche area of study, but it's big amongst the Big Wigs in the US, so that thinking will in time trickle down to the wannabes in the UK... Oh yes, that's why this nonsense has popped up now on the agenda... Culture Wars... Thank God for my time in the Social Sciences, because it's made it easier to see where such the diversion of the politics of envy is leading us, and it's into another manufactured moral panic, which is quickly becoming irrelevant if the Big Wigs get their way. They've already shifted the goal posts, because they can, and it's not for our benefit. One could repackaged education and training as the Germans did, where vocational education and academic education were given equivalence far, far earlier in the United Kingdom, to the extent one could take vocational education and study it upto undergraduate levels and beyond. It was less socially divisive. And probably explains why their productivity has far better than ours. We're still trying to pigeonhole people and control them, instead of building on their potential. And in the attempt creating more disappointment and alienation in the process.
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