/lit/ - Literature

Awful thread

Departments are divided this way because it is in the interest of the elite to have a surplus of STEM workers who are ultraqualified in their own fields but either disinterested or jaded and cynical towards anything outside of theirs or similar fields.

Humanities is "leftist" (mostly just liberal) flooded with middle and working class students who were told by their high schools that they NEED to go to college or they will never have a job or any kind of success. When looking for a college they are directed to college resources showing lists of majors and choose what interests them, usually for a layperson something like sociology or english seems easier and more accessible than hard science. And universities are no longer exclusive, they are for laypeople, who are funneled there out of primary schooling to get in a ton of debt and never be able to be financially independent.

The STEM/Humanities dichotomy is illusory, it's two sides of the same coin that is neoliberal education. Neoliberals dont want an educated socially aware populace, but they do want a tolerant populace, because neoliberalism functions by having a diversity of groups to sell things to amd an excess of cheap immigrant labor. So the humanities provides tolerance training and diverts any would be revolutionary sentiment into a liberal reformism concerned entirely with identity politics. STEM and Business functions as a way to find those analytic professionals (scientists and engineers) and entrepeneurs who make the best hires at large companies and in government positions because theyre taught that they are uberpractical and free from ideology through their contact in college with the proudly hyperideological campus liberals.

So, that is the real reason. Badiou says a lot of stuff about this, I think Zizek and Chomsky do as well.

>>8438427

Stirner is the opposite of a nihilist, though.

>>8117171

Battle with the spooks.

>All these skim-readers
>All these non-thinkers

>>8067080

You're right. So 'uninteresting' that your beloved Marx spent page after page shitting himself about the influence would have; thus trying to pre-emptively refute him.

>>7775924

>2016
>Being uncomfortable in the presence of your own property