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I mentioned the project my upper division class is doing in another thread (primary source search). One of the kids who did the If magazine found an ad from 1968, which gave a list of sci-fi authors on two pages (those who supported the war and those who opposed it). He said that he didn’t recognize many of the pro-war names, but lots of the anti-war names.
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Fears around over population have always been about fear of the poor and of people of color, about the “right” people not breeding enough and the “wrong” people breeding too much.
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$5,000 per course? Here adjuncts get more like $3000 per course (paid out over the course of a semester). As a VL, I’m salaried (at $35,000). In the past 5 years the history department has lost at least 9 tenure track historians, and none of those tenure lines have been replaced. The chair is angling to move up into administration, I think, so she keeps not pushing for more tenure lines. And our major enrollment is down, because all of society thinks that the humanities are a luxury we can cut out of our universities in favor of “job training” type programs (which I’m not against at all, just that I think liberal arts education and the humanities matter as much, obviously). My contract is up either in the spring or summer, and I have no idea what my plans are. it’s good that I’m married and don’t have to worry about making a living, giving me some space to make some choices… not everyone has that privilege. I still feel sick to my stomach on a daily basis about what my future career looks like. I feel like a fool for thinking I could make something of myself with regards to that.
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I’m half inclined to think this was fake and half inclined to think it’s entirely true.
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I want to escape to Australia disguised as a tropical island…
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Yeah, I got a strong Poe’s Law vibe off of that whole post, and I’m still unsure which side I’m on.
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Either way, I can totally see some 19 year old boy thinking this way… some of them can be incredibly arrogant and blinkered, thinking they are incredibly clever for liking someone like jordaddy.
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Yeah; on the one hand, it seems a bit over-the-top that he mentioned every little sign that his girlfriend wasn’t interested in Peterson’s rhetoric… On the other hand, some people (especially teenagers) can certainly be that lacking in self-reflection.
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Whether it’s real or not, it’s most certainly a scenario that’s played out countless time on college campuses, I’m sure.
Does the idea of going international appeal at all? One of the key advantages of the academic professions is that they’re relatively portable; plenty of non-USAdian universities have an American History department.
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…although Sasse does, unintentionally, have a point. The USA has traditionally relied upon propaganda and thought control to an unusually high degree.
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