In Defense of the Liberal Arts

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Its an inherent danger that when society loses it training grounds for rational thinkers, society as a whole suffers. Nazi Germany burned books in large fires to surpress freedom of though. Stalin declaired war on free thought. In the US today we too are seeing academic freedom under assult. Ironcially this is being done under the banner of freedom by such academo-fascists as George Gollin who argued that he was exercising his own freedom by putting up a page on his publically financed website which aimed to persecute institutions of higher learning which did not conform to his own ideals

And there are more and more restrictions on freedom. I believe that the elitists will not rest until they create a New World Order devoid of free thought.

Well, the NSDAP burned books, but allied commissions all over Europe did just that, too...and that's considered next to heavenly behaviour...Gyorgy Lukacs belonged to a group a Marxist maximalists who orchestrated mass book burnings after the war, but you get tons of literature on him as one of the heavyweights of Marxism (=the right idea to espouse at the next caviar party). Slavoj Zizek, another philosopher who gets study groups in his name, publicly and relentlessly advocates the whitewashing of Leninism and its reinstatement upon the golden throne of great historical idea.