Comments by "graham johnson" (@TheWchurchill4pm) on "What Dark Academia Says About Elite Education" video.

  1. It’s often overlooked how intellectual the lower classes were in the early days of US expansion. Since the settlers had to find ways to have a say in how the government handled territorial expansion, they had to engage in a lot of debate and discussion - a frontier version of the European coffeehouse. The promotion of literacy was also important as it was essential to upward mobility in the western territories.
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  2. My American Academia aesthetic: blue collar career, exploring intellectual pursuits (theater, classical music, esoteric/high culture books) for fun during spare time.
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  3. To the claim that western academia is “white supremacist” I respond with Harold Bloom’s argument that people living in western countries learn to be “universal” by discovering universal truths within the central Western Canon.
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  4. Ironically, humanism and the classics may be better reserved for the proletariat classes than for the elites who have the most influence over politics and the economy. The latter require practical skills to lead effectively. But the lower classes who require lower level skills may be more content (dare I say “docile”) if they are held fascinated by the liberal arts.
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