Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Claire Lehmann | Why Does Critical Theory Dominate Academia? | #CLIP" video.

  1. Critical Theory has never been evidence-based. As such it allows one to say almost anything about everything. It gives the critic endless degrees of freedom. When Critical Theorists can 'theorize' plausible sounding ideas to convinve themselves, then, obviously, they'll do that. Publishing theory is easier than publishing fact. I don't think there's a 'long march through the institutions' with a plan to attack the culture. I think corrosive ideas about the culture are inevitable when infinite degrees of freedom are available to academics to promote their ideas.
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  2. "1. Explanatory. That is, it explains what is wrong with society (as opposed to a Traditional theory, which explains how the world works)." <- So, if a theory cannot find something wrong with society then it's "uncritical"; and presumably, morally evil? As such all theory must become CT to fit the one size fits all plan for ideas eastablished by academics.
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