Screw the humanities- abbreviated thoughts

[Anonymous No.8537752]

Paying attention to recent politics has really hammered home some things.

All social sciences are stamp collecting exercises at best and an attempt to monopolise either common sense or bullshit at worst. It seems that there is a huge class of unintelligent people with degrees (almost always in social science or humanities subjects) who treat social scientists (or "experts") as all knowing prophets. "Disliking Islam is irrational" "Supporters of X are conveying their Authoritiarian Loving personalities". Its not new.

Even though Economics has not led to the ability to make viable predictions about macroeconomics people in this field have no trouble claiming a monopoly over all sorts of shit.

Even "high culture" is no different. The Republic was literally a wankfest dream by Plato but it is worshipped solely because it is old and other people worship it. It would make no difference whether Plato was praising a technocracy or a democracy or worshipping chickens. What matters is that its old and people can be seen to be praising it.

Also there are people who seriously think that "rigour" and "critical thinking" are thinks you can only get from a university degree.

History the academic subject is just stamp collecting with a marketing / PR spin put on it. Historians have nothing to say.

Philosophy is a circlejerk within the infinite space of unfalsifiable things to say. Of course the humanities and social sciences are leftist West hating breeding grounds.

It is clear that people use Shakespeare as a God to worship rather than look at him for what he was: a guy who wrote plays for people with less education than 7 year olds today. This is because many art forms are used solely as a social posturing tool by pseudo intellectuals.

[Anonymous No.8537770]

lmaoing @ your life

[Anonymous No.8537771]

>I am under 6', am not Asian American, did not get into Princeton University and was not valedictorian of my high school
Sorry, op

[Anonymous No.8537774]

>common sense

Bad bat

[Anonymous No.8537777]

>>8537752
I agree, OP. Humanities literally just saying things that sound good, epistemological rigor be damned

[Anonymous No.8537781]

>>8537777
Thanks for the words of infinite wisdom, God.

[Anonymous No.8537785]

>>8537777
>rigor
nice meme

[Anonymous No.8537788]

>>8537752
>Paying attention to recent politics has really hammered home some things...
holy fucking shit kys

[Anonymous No.8538258]

>frogposting

>doesn't tie in the odd mention of politics(which politics?)

> It seems that there is a huge class of unintelligent people with degrees (almost always in social science or humanities subjects) who treat social scientists (or "experts") as all knowing prophets. "Disliking Islam is irrational" "Supporters of X are conveying their Authoritiarian Loving personalities". Its not new.
How are you coming to this conclusion? If it is personal experience it is most likely chance. If it is due to statistics then which ones?

>Even "high culture" is no different. The Republic was literally a wankfest dream by Plato but it is worshipped solely because it is old and other people worship it. It would make no difference whether Plato was praising a technocracy or a democracy or worshipping chickens. What matters is that its old and people can be seen to be praising it.

Interesting criticism. Which views specifically are you criticizing here and why do you think they revere the book because of its age? Is there anything in their work to give that allusion?

>Also there are people who seriously think that "rigour" and "critical thinking" are thinks you can only get from a university degree.

Once again very vague. Which "people"? How many? How did you come to this conclusion?

The rest are simply statements with, once again, no evidence. For someone who values "critical thinking" you seem to be at a loss as to how to build an arguement.