/lit/ - Literature

bumping an interesting thread that's ultimately about translation and linguistics and power

>>13339404
This geriatric loafabout hasn't the faintest idea what is appropriate for an educational curriculum. I'm fine booting Mockingbird out of interest for something else but the reasoning and criteria outlined by Randall are so tiresome. I think she can be counted among the vast majority of people in the country who haven't a sense of what's important, let alone what's essential to tell children. The focus on better business for universities and better test performance for preparatory education have either made obvious the vacuity rampant in the academic environment or else laid bare the measure of its decay. I always expected our culture to incentivize and reward rebellion, almost for its own sake, and that this would keep things dynamic, adaptive, somehow more connected to reality. But Randall's article is as lucid as a bong hit. If her preferences are somehow closer to a better way, its unclear based on her reasoning why this is the case.

>>13250520
I used to think it was a superior art form, something that could take literature and build it into awesome applications. But it seems to be largely exercises in commercial scale marketing and police state systems. What else has been coded that's culturally significant, besides word processors, databases and libraries, which now seem like pallid lures to entice you into the system, whose real enticements are pornography, attention even status and prestige. What do we really gain? Has there been an honest accounting yet?

Wed not for her beef but her braaper, anons.

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