Salvo 5: Spring 2008
I’ve recently finished the latest issue of Salvo Magazine, an excellent issue dealing with the sordid state of higher education in America. In Mind Control: Now Occurring at a University Near You, Herb London writes:
Professor Richard Rorty, the much acclaimed philosopher who shuffled off this mortal coil last June, argued that professors in the university ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.” Rorty noted further that students would be fortunate to find themselves under the control “of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.” Indeed, parents who send their children to college should recognize that professors “are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.”
These were not comments made at Marxist Leninist University or by the Red Guard. Nor was this the ranting of a deranged atheist who opposed the Commandment to “honor your father and mother.” These views were those of a greatly respected senior professor who not only influenced his colleagues but, to a degree, embodied their sentiments.
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