While exploring the PhilosophyNews website I came across an article by
John Leo: "We Need New, Undamaged Colleges"
(<http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=041599&ID=s561838&cat=>),
in which the author laments the dangerous effects of deconstruction and feminism on the
youth of America. Leo writes: "Because of deconstruction and the broader postmodern
movement, everything can be toppled. This is exactly what the West-bashing multiculturalists
and male-bashing campus feminists wanted to hear." He goes on to decribe his experiences
while touring various colleges with his daughter: "The college tour is obviously awkward for
parents who realize that the modern American university is rooted in a new value system
quite antagonistic to their own. 'We are like a warrior caste that sends its children away to be
raised by pacifist monks,' says Norman Podhoretz, the critic and editor".
In an odd way this seems to echo attitudes about popular cinema: why
should we pay hard-earned money to watch films that disagree with the
way in which we earned that money in the place?
David Sorfa
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Communications and Image Studies/Film Studies
School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts
Rutherford College
University of Kent at Canterbury
CT2 7NX
United Kingdom
http://www.geocities.com/athens/9604
silence - exile - cunning
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