The (In)Humanities Departments

Professors who used to teach people about the joys of being human now only discuss racial grievances and their own inadequacies.

In America the humanities departments were the pride and joy of our well disciplined, diligent, and thoughtful nation.

Such departments produced the literary philosophers Emerson and Thoreau.

They fostered the development of William James’ experimental psychology and introspective psycho-philosophy.

And they harnessed the talents of the great American novelist William Faulkner.

At one point humanities departments were something special --  largely because they used to focus on what made humans and civilization so special.  

There they would discuss the joys of clear and insightful communication, the various attempts to solve life’s most pressing problems, and how to think about how to think.

And they reinforced the knowledge gained from these discussions with an insistent discipline and pride of purpose.

The contemporary humanities departments attempt to do no such thing.

In the new inhumanities departments instructors launch investigations into the inadequacy of their own whiteness, sermonize about the divinity of equality, and use all forms of coercion to make students obey.

The departments of the past are now totally gone.

Instead they’ve been replaced with a defective and self hating socialist ideology.

In these new departments restraint is oppressive and discipline is an affirmation of outdated European norms.  

Likewise respect and decency is a way of maintaining the exploitative capitalists’ status quo.

In other words everything normal about Americans’ historical way of life has been painted as inhumane and cruel.

Accordingly as students have been told about the inhumanity of Americans’ normal way of living they too have become more inhumane and less sensitive to the joys of life.

No wonder then our politics, amongst other things, have become so cruel and vicious.

Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University.  You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1.  Additionally you can find episodes of the weekly Sunday podcast (4PM) that airs via Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter at this link here. 

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