2017/04/10: Six Minutes on the True Purpose of University Education 

I'm sorry to write this but it's archetype. And yes, he is.

Aderla22 np. Sent from Phone with english as 3rd language.

pinegulf don't worry my man, your meaning was understood 👍🏻

He a PIECE of shit

It's really ironic that the original nihilist's critique of Christianity was that it supposedly taught weakness. Go forward 100 years and postmodernism has found a way to preach weakness on a whole new level. I am enrolled in engineering and we are pretty lucky in that most of our professors teach concrete skills and discipline, but engineers can't fix the humanities - so go forward, upstanding humanities students and academics, let us know when you need help!

The Family Virtue Signal This could be the answer to the capture of the academy by virtue signalling cultural Marxists. Set up a crowd funded institution of the world wide Web, a kind of Aristotelian Lyceum, where real knowledge is encouraged. It would be greatly helped if thinkers like Jordan Petersson or Roger Scruton in Britain,plus the legions of non-academic lovers of wisdom to be found on the Web, were co- opted for this endeavour. Eric Bliar.

are you familiar with the strauss-howe generational theory sargon?

thank you for your comment sargon and always dont wanna see the badman or get evil,,

Well said. I have to tell you your video on Syria war was incredible. You are a voice that needs to heard!! You and Peterson are heroes in my book. Thanks for being you.

You could always go back with your new knowledge!

If only I knew this before starting an Art History degree that I was obliged to finish

we will put things back to the order in our own lives. i am with you on ur journey, cos my story is very similar to urs.

You can always go back.

I wish I could go back and do it again. I felt like I wasted that time, I was too young and dumb to use it wisely. Almost 27 now, could still go back, but do I really want to spend 4 years of my life and accrue more debt?

same here *thumbup*

It's so powerful that my random number generator got sorted, and I always win at solitaire because no matter how much I shuffle the deck the cards always come up in order.

so sorted

Ha!

New Years resolution syndrome

He should pin this

But how do I do that? I don't even know where to start.

Triggered me right there.

Alexander Petrenko Yes!!! I've always had an issue with people just stop reading and learning when school is over. Although one friend told me that after having dry books rammed down your theist for 4 years, reading loses its appeal.

Ry P Also, clean your room.

Clean your books, while you listen to your room.

Some people lern better with visual, others better with audio. Audio books are amazing for dyslexis people.

What if im a bum? Check mate Jordan Peterson.

As it turns out, the post-modernists are not taking over academia in order to change the cultural ideas that it transmits, but to destroy the mechanism of cultural transmission itself. Post-modernists are there not to upend, but to annihilate.

Christopher O'Sullivan I felt the same way, I have watched it 5 times and still get emotional at the crisis of our university culture that he highlights. I get emotional because it strikes a deep cord with my sentiments.

But what about the emotional high-pitch sir, I mean with his voice I love jpb folks, chill

You got your order messed up. Clean room Read great books (Twilight doesn't count) Acquire logos (reasoned thought, roughly speaking) Rescue your father (use logos to improve society) Slay the dragon (Raise your kids to do the same as this list*, transcend your own shortcomings) *I believe ideas cannot be killed, but you can at least make less people believe in bad ones and that is the only way to keep the dragon at bay.

Ideas could probably be killed with a big/fast enough comet, though.

True, but then there would be no ideas and that is not exactly ideal.

Don't forget about saving your father from the Underworld

ayyyy

Also, I hope you and Joe Rogan end up doing more podcasts. Currently watching the most recent one for the 3rd time.

SterileZebra ~ Shadilay.

One thing at a time fampai, Kek brings chaos to bring the opportunity to give shape to it, whatever it's manifestation is. Shadilay

Michael Grace lmao

You mean you Googled it all?

until recently, university was one of few places to acquire a useful academic education. Now-a-days a university degree is little more than an indication that you are (or once were anyway) capable of completing a moderately challenging, multi-year task

I am not going to Bullshit you. University, as it is, would help almost nothing. I study International Relations at a top university in my country. One would expect eager students, with sharp minds trying their best to understand the concepts being thrown at them, relating one thing with another, being taught by smart and articulate professors that wil blow their minds every given lecture... Well, it is not. Most cannot handle basic philosophical concepts that have been discussed for the last two years. Cannot relate one thing with another unless someone tells them that they are somehow related (which leaves them open to manipulation by ill-intended faculty); have not read a single book beyond a few suggested chapters in class and can hardly articulate any speech more complex than some superficial political slogan. What is even worse is that, since they are in this top university, they feel they ARE getting a true education and feel they know enough to comment what happens in the world around them. The other day, some self proclaimed feminist girl told me Islam does not demand women to wear a Hijab. It seems amazing but it really happened. I could only ask her if she ever read the Quran and the answer was a resounding "no". What I mean by this is that she had no idea about either Islam or her feminism, thus serving as an example of how they cannot connect two concepts in a coherent structure. If you cannot attend a university at the moment, I would like to suggest you something: go to a library and pick a book on a topic that interests you. It doesn't matter if it is something like philosophy or engineering for dummies. Read it and learn as much as you can. After you finish it, you will know a little more and become able to discern which schools of thought seem more interesting and allow you to dwelve further into it. That, in turn, will allow you to perhaps read the authors of said school of thought themselves and become wiser and more well read, expanding you interest to fields you didn't even imagine would one day interest you. I would say that would be the academic equivalent of "cleaning your room": begin from the "meaningless" and build your way up. Do not feel discouraged before the task if it seems too great. Apply yourself to it, begin at the beggining and steam on. Sorry if my english contains errors, it is a second language, but I felt like I could help you a little and I truly wish you success, should you feel inspired by my comment. Cheers mate.

gre8 Thank you. This is my view word for word. If only most young people had a similar outlook.

The most awful class was a social anthropology one. The teacher was insane. It totally put me off of arguing.

How are you doing now?

What university was it ?

roughly speaking

Auctoritas non potestas. Authority, not power. Wisdom, not threats.

What are you hoping to study?

How did you rescue him.

belly of the underworld*

I thought my comment implied I hadn't done any rescuing lmao.

Joseph Campbell he has gum disease, sort yourself out