Joanna Bryson, blathering on Nostr: All that would definitely be bad – cynical, self-sabotaging, philistine. But ...

All that would definitely be bad – cynical, self-sabotaging, philistine. But there’s another possibility that is worse: that culture wars aren’t being fought to destroy the humanities – rather that humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism

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How cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other