Date sent: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:13:05 -0400
Subject: Re: pacifist monks
From: John Daigle <[log in to unmask]>
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> 'We are like a warrior caste that sends its children away to be
> >raised by pacifist monks,' says Norman Podhoretz, the critic and editor".
> >
> Not that that's unusual, or historically speaking, much of a change.
> Monastic and Parochial schools have a long history in many Western and
> Eastern cultures.
>
> j.daigle
What interests me more than the history of education is the fact
that dominant popular values seem so at odds with the perceived
values of high culture (as exemplified by the University and, I would
imagine, those artefacts that some choose to call "art"). I feel that
the increasing corporate nature of the University system militates
more and more against philosophical research in favour of using the
insights of cultural criticism to sell more product - whether it be
university-level education or a particular film. In other words, the
smug, and by now almost invisible, triumph of capital is militating
against teaching (or film) that is critical of the very institutions that
allow it to exist.
Perhaps the question is: what would a useful course in "Film
Studies" look like? I think that the problem here is in the definition
of the word "useful".
David Sorfa
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