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Butler, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida.
What does any of their theory have to do with anything? China is building high speed rail and smart cities while US students have their heads in the clouds reading Lacan.
Is it me, or have we placed far too much importance on the Humanities since the end of WW2?

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>>18065207
Yeah way too much focus on humanities, we need to cut their funding and put it into STEM, how anyone would think art is more important and fulfilling than STEM is beyond me!

>> No.18065249 [DELETED] 

>>18065207
“Theory” is useless. Machiavelli solved politics and anything after him(except other Machiavellians)is cope. I think theory pseuds need to be forced to do physical labor until their overacademized posturing stops.

>> No.18065255

>>18065207
In the early 20th century Marxists went into two separate ways. Westerners were generally anti-Soviet, were influenced by Weberian critique of positivism and Gramscian thought and paid more attention to cultural than to economic factors. The other group was pro-Soviet and studies economics and the sciences. Chinese Marxism was influenced by the latter group

>> No.18065275

>>18065207
This is absolutely correct. Read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao and then go get a Master’s in Engineering.

>> No.18065367

>>18065207
>China is building high speed rail and smart cities while US students have their heads in the clouds reading Lacan
High speed rails will never fill the hole inside, meanwhile US students are enjoying endless jouissance from displacing the objet petit a

pbuh Lacan

>> No.18065384

>>18065207
France was a pioneer in high speed trains while Lacan was still teaching and practicing. Your point is moot.

>> No.18065423

>>18065255
Must also be why Chinese Marxism actually went somewhere.

>> No.18065439

>>18065384
France is now being conquered by Africans and Muslims, while China is scheduled to be the biggest economy by 2029.

>> No.18065783

The problem in universities have been them neglecting the humanities.