It is odd how people will get stuck on ideas and will hate you if you want to deviate in any way. I have seen it plenty of times in the engineering field.
Bkmk
Why do academics insist that all the professors in the university department hew to the same ideology
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Cuz !
They are all vetted darwinist cult members who are reprobates who worship at the alter of secular humanism and communism who’s primary doctrine is that there is absolutely no such thing as absolute truth and that nothing exploded into everything.
No logic or reason that refutes them allowed.
As a Douglas Adams fan, I found this funny.
The behavior is the same as those defending a cult. Mental illnesses are inherent in Academia.
“That goes in spades for our modern secular religions like communism.“
Nice try lumping religion in with all of the isim’s. Religion, Judeo/Christian, has an offset that the isims don’t, ie God, who reserves certain troublesome things to Himself. Vengeance, anger, that sort of thing.
The old saw is that university politics are vicious because the stakes are so small. (In a land of tenured staff jockeying for small honors.)
Where I worked, it was wall-to-wall ‘faculty’, and a more selfish, immature and delusional crowd of jerks you have never seen!!
The ONLY one with his head screwed on right was a guy who was born in Russia and probably forgot more about Communism than all the others combined, ever knew!
Generally speaking, academics are nothing more than support for that which really matters.... the trades.
Diploma Narcissism. They are smarter than the average bears. At least “they/them” think so. Severe NPD.
They’re willing for the shilling.
And Deep State pays pretty well.
Check out the salaries, health bennies, and pensions they get for doing Deep State’s dirty work.
Academics are elitists. They exist to write for their peers, most of which no one other than other academics will ever read. They have great difficulty writing succinctly or on a topic of general interest or importance. In short, they focus on the trivial. When Einstein wrote, “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly,” he had academics in mind.
I observe this same behavior in so called Bible Thumpers or Biblical Academic Scholars, especially here on FR.
They become like the Pharisees who are legalistic, not ever feeling Love, the most important element in any spiritual growth.
It has to do with people owning their knowledge as a possession and forming an ego identity around their possession of the knowledge. They become so afraid to lose their ego identity that they will attack anyone who even asks a question, the answer to which undermines their knowledge. (This is also the basis of Trump Derangement Syndrome.)
I presented a lecture and demonstrations at a major divinity school to a large audience of academics across many departments, including many MD’s.
One man in his late 70’s left the lecture three times, and then returned to hear more each time. He was a retired psychology professor at the university whom I had never met prior.
A month later, I was presenting a similar lecture at the medical school and this same man came up to me and explained that he didn’t believe a word I said as it didn’t fit with all his education through PhD, or in his 40+ years of teaching at the university, or in actual experiences in practice. However, when I demonstrated it, he explained that his body started physically shaking and wouldn’t stop shaking, so he left my lecture and walked the halls of the building until he calmed down. His eyes saw the demonstrations which undermined his knowledge. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing and it created an internal paradox. He then returned to the lecture and the same thing happened again, and again, three times in total.
He was not ready for me to explain that his response was normal for an injured ego. My demonstrations undermined the knowledge he possessed and had formed an ego identity around it. (This is why “dying daily” is so important in spiritual growth. It is the death of the ego that blocks us from perceiving and experiencing God. In Buddhism, they call this same process as “achieving No-Self. It’s the same thing.)
I was presenting Jesus’s teachings, explaining them, and then demonstrating why Jesus taught what He did by reading the detailed stored memories in people’s souls, without them saying anything. I demonstrated that sin is actually a physical obstacle to Love in a person’s soul, and when I touched it, many feet from the person’s physical body, it often knocked them off their feet. I also demonstrated that anger attached our soul to the person we are angry at, thus giving them control over us. Forgiveness sets us free. (If a person closed their eyes and thought of the person they were angry at, my moving the stored memory in their soul moved their physical body in the same direction, even though I was many feet away and their eyes were closed.)
I try to pull Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 essay, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” every year as a reminder of how an injured ego responds, and why. His essay is very accurate and describes the journey of academics. I highly recommend it to everyone. It helps me to have compassion for all the people, even here on FR, who attack me as being delusional. I just allow them to hold onto their own delusions as my individual identity that is based upon my relationship as a servant of Jesus and God are not influenced by the attacks which often become vicious. I have no need to convince others.
I share this for people to gain understanding, not to glorify my own ego, as to do so would lead me into forming a spiritual ego identity, a trap that everyone encounters on their own individual spiritual journey.
The nasty ones are the loudest, and are that way because they really have no abilities in their trade. Summary: They are dumbasses.
I have been in neuroscience conferences at the New York Academy of Sciences where Nobel Prize winners stood up interrupting with shouting, screaming and attacking other presenters they disagreed with. Some were close to becoming physical. The emotions were especially high between NYU and Columbia university faculty. As an outsider, it was laughable seeing them act like children.
I can only imagine what it would have been like when Einstein and Bohr went at it in debate.
“It’s odd how humans fight to the death over ideas.”
Does that also make FR odd?
Dear Author: Most true “academics” are liberals. Figure it out.
They live in echo chambers where every belief is a hill to die on, justifying any action to defend it. That’s why so many end up committing crimes. They believe they are saving the world.
The worst breakups, between humans, are between the lesbians in particular, who seem to have an affinity for a cat fight.
While all is fiar in love and war, within the Ivory Towers, reside the most arrogant of the “smartest person(s) in the romm”, each being that one of crowning mental acumen.
The need to be the the best and most prominent comes from being told you are such a person, but in your heart you must find ways outside shear mental powers to defeat your academic rivals.
In the hallowed halls of government the academics enshried reqirements for degrees but made allowances for those that may have acquired their experience or skills. However, one could be degreed or credentialed and get the job over the working stiff more easily, and the problem of academic credentials then were stacked on top of entry level people who were then promoted ot management.
Those both seeking and oftentimes eleveated quickly to management is due to their inabilit to actually put into application mental skills and produce labor; thus the idiots with degrees eventually run everything.
These that beleive or promote themselves as the smartest person in the room are mentally ill and have been indroctrinated in the Left’s BS and deviance’s.
They are, literally speaking, the worst of the best or the best of the worst. They will put a knife in your back quicker than a Japanese, so to speak. They will steal akin to a monkey, and they are more deadly than a scorpian riding a frog across a river.
I have often surmised that many die-hard “experts” have recently stayed at a Holiday Inn.
Close-minded and unable to apply critical thought to new information.