Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Peter Boghossian on Critical Thinking, Failing Universities, and Why Debate Matters" video.

  1. At that point, you need to move out of frisco. When the machine stops you doing your job.
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  2. (1) "If you think you've found the truth you don't seek it" "The gate-keepers of reason have all fallen" In centuries to come, Boghossian will be mined for quotes. (2) I disagree with Boghossian on somethings: - gay marriage. OK, for you to call yourself gay, and OK to declare you're "married". But, ... the institution of marriage is established and subsidized (tax breaks) because it enables better child rearing. That's why we value marriage. Gays don't rear kids, apart from a tiny minority of lesbians. BTW: aren't most lesbians themselves, childless? - 'climate change'. I was shocked a few years ago to see armies of ex-new atheists, 'critical thinkers', and kow-towing to the climate hysteria psychopathology. I think Peter Boghossian is the best philosopher working today. A gem. (3) PS: "The Epistemology of Democracy", by Elizabeth Anderson. 2006. It that the journal article PB cited?
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  3. In a way, ownership and curating ideas were always a preoccupation of power. Just look at the history of Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, Aztec ideology, the Soviet system, ... In the 20th century, Western academia fought long and hard to free itself from power and state control, to become 'free'. Yet with that freedom it instituted its own totalitarianism!! The takeover by pseudo-Marxists is not simply the long march through the institutions. Institutions have their own self-totalization. Consider, during the great European Enlightenment, ONLY ONE philosophe/lumière was an academic: Kant, practically the last and supposed culmination of it! Not by choice, David Hume, for example, applied for many academic jobs but was constantly rejected. Critical thinking is alien to institutions. This doesn't imply anarchy and defeat. Instead we have to look at how funding, and empire-building corrupted academia. How this empire building by academia destroys critical thinking. How to stop that.
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