Tenets of Liberal Education Underpin Govt. Abuses

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 11, 2013 | Peter Berkowitz

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Leaving aside the NSA snooping, which is apparently legal (if worrisome), it is easy to view the three scandals rocking the Obama administration -- Benghazi, IRS, and Department of Justice -- as disconnected instances of the abuse of power.

But this is not necessarily so.

Although apparently unrelated to each other in their planning and execution, the three controversies exhibit a shared sensibility -- and possess a common root. Each reflects a cardinal tenet of the powerfully reinforced brand of left-liberalism inculcated on university campuses in this country.

{SNIP}

The administration’s misleading of the public reflects a teaching that is common to much literary theory, sociology, anthropology, political theory, and legal theory on college campuses today: Knowledge is socially constructed, and therefore the narrative is all.

Many professors even demote their own arguments and downgrade their accounts by characterizing them as stories, as in “I am puzzled by your story about the causes of the Civil War. I would tell a different story.” A creature of the contemporary academy, Barack Obama echoed this orientation in a January 2012 CBS News interview.

[Da Coyote]

Liberal education.

It took only a few decades for that term to go from one of admiration to one of derision.

It is now the very definition of an oxymoron.

[circlecity]

Classic post-modernism. There is no truth, everything is relative and all ethics are situational.

[Graewoulf]

BUMP!

The US Department of Education was created in 1912.

Pause for a moment to ponder the influence of such a simple thing as the school lunch program’s effect on conditioning generations of Americans to expect to be fed by a faceless Big Government.

Fast forward to The current US Welfare State - - - .

That was EASY! And it only took 100 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[USS Johnston]

The US Department of Education was created in 1912.

The Federal Reserve was established in 1913. Also in 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. In 1914 WWI begins.

Coincidence?

[mjp]

Knowledge is socially constructed, and therefore the narrative is all.

Postmodernist libtard education teaches:

1) anti-objective truth - the denial of universal objective truth, there are only truths localized to a particular culture,society, group or individual
2) anti-metanarrative - There are no stories that explains the world. There are only local stories told by various cultures
3) anti-realism - People construct reality according to their culture, society, and experiences
4) platonic-heraclitean flux theory of reality, anti-realism, and primacy of consciousness - reality is indeterminate and can be constructed to gain values
5) dishonesty - the construction of fictional reality for the purpose of gaining undeserved and unearned values.
6) anti-correspondence theory of truth - there is no correspondence of truth to reality

When libtards hear this, they have no problem ignoring the truth and telling stories that deceive to try to get what they want.