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The Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge and Approved Ideas
Kampmark, Binoy
http://dissidentvoice.org/2019/03/the-faculty-of-divinity-cambridge-and-approved-ideas/Date Written: 2019-03-24 Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23558 The university environment should be the last place where dangerous ideas, and views, are stifled and stomped upon. In actual fact, we are seeing the reverse; from students unions to middle- and upper-managerial parasites and administrators, the contrarian idea must be boxed, the controversial speaker silenced and sent beyond the pale. Abstract: - Excerpt: It should be very clear that meaningless terms such as diversity and inclusiveness do very little to the content of actual intellectual conversation. Ideas are there to be debated, not accepted by high caste strictures. The modern academic environment suggests something quite opposite: a policing rationale, an insistence on thought control that is insidious and all too common in managed structures. When incorporated into the university structure, the bureaucrat takes precedence over the intellectual, the mindless cherry picker over the polymath. The more ideas you have, the more of a threat you will be, requiring regulation and the occasional ostracising. In broader public spaces, this may even require you losing a platform altogether. Subject Headings |