This is a bone I'm nowhere near ready to give up.
There will always be some
seeking knowledge, tradition,
meaning, & even #truth.
I'm with you.
The article in today's Guardian newspaper is the type of violently patronising shit we've unconsciously become accustomed to as being proper UK journalism, yet itself flies in the face of many of the qualities of the industry's self appointed standards of definition of "decent" journalism (also known simply as "journalism").
Having been post-school educated by renegades & mavericks, such as the movement known by some as "the Norwich Bastards", then onward, through the rejection of quantitative bollocks by a school of research we just uncritically branded "postmodernism", I've always been scathing of people who present themselves as academics, or thinkers, without doing the work required to be one. However, what the real academics & thinkers have firmly convinced me of, is that education and truth are a matter of perspective, and that everything is up for discussion, as long as deductive processes are applied.
Simply, knowledge is a pursuit, and this pursuit is less reliant on the presentation of dead answers, as it is on the positing, discussion and answering of questions.
A psychiatrist with whom I once worked suggested that nothing of any real importance had been given to us by the so-called "social sciences", compared to the "pure", or "hard sciences".
He surprised me by his assertion, because he appeared to that point to have dedicated his life to his self-confessed futility. I was saddened, one year, to return from college term recess to be greeted at the train station by the Dean, who told me my psychiatrist friend had died at the age of only 39, on the last day of the semester, from a sudden heart attack.
Once we've dug ourselves out of the manufactured media "truth" hole, we're finished if we think we should sit back & permit those who manufactured & perpetuated these falsehoods in the first place to now explain them to us.
The truth is, they can't, because they don't understand them.
Read the Guardian
newspaper article
