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kleinbl00 · 1823 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Academic Apocalypse: The crisis of English departments is also a crisis of faith.
Douthat's entire argument is that your approach is literally cancer and is the proximate cause for the downfall of the humanities. Worthy of note: mk thinks I'm clever but doesn't consider that humanities-as-taught not only drove me out of practicing them, it has left me with a trigger-finger grudge that is older than you, young lady. It is the fundamental insistence in the necessity of "because I told you so" passing as unassailable maxim that has killed the humanities because fuckin hell, the ability to parrot back your professors is worthless for anything but training parrots.