It’s pretty simple, actually. As one only gets tenure by publishing, and since only original “research” gets published, the Humanities would cease to exist if their professors confined themselves to things like “evidence” and “reason.” Shakespeare, after all, isn’t around to write any more sonnets, and we’ve long ago examined all probable causes of big historical events like the Civil War. The only thing to do, then, is entirely decouple the Humanities from reason and evidence. This is Postmodernism, and it’s so successful because it starts with an impossibility — it’s a fact, the PoMos declare, that there’s no such thing as a fact.
“Search your feelings. You know it to be true.”
De-Coupled (heh) Human-Aint-Uh-Ree ..
[at your service]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/01/31/student-loans-more-millenials-gen-zers-delay-marriage-reduce-debt/4612295002/
SMH
When you view this above .. it means something different depending on if you read it from a man or woman’s perspective.
The data shows Malice preying on Stupid!
Summary .. SMH!
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Sounds like hubris resulting from decades upon decades of peace and prosperity.
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There’s definitely some of that, but I also agree with the post that you can only re-hash the past a finite number of times, after that you have to destroy it to have anything new to talk about.
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Yes there are far too many academics who need to justify the existence of their job!
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