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    6 days ago

    What if they cut the funding so that people spend their time punching other people?

    To me, it seems like a Luke and the emperor scene. They want the hate.

    Humanities don’t need funding for expensive laboratories. What’s holding back people from making their own college?

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        6 days ago

        My point is not that fascism is just hate. I am sure you understood it though because you made your position clear.

        Still I am intrigued to read more about your theories. That STEM and humanities meetup or the complex philosophical system that I don’t understand, could you give me a hint on where to start digging?

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            5 days ago

            Thanks a lot. By chance, do you know a lemmy channel where content in that area is posted?

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                5 days ago

                Exactly.

                I will look into that Nietzsche though.

                Almost funny that you suggest him while he was instrumentalized by the fascists as a fascist.

                It’s still strange that you stress punching nazis while you have a deeper understanding of their mentality. Don’t people fall back to group strength when they feel vulnerable themselves? Punching Nazis will confirm that vulnerability.

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                    5 days ago

                    Well, I have watched that monk movie.

                    So you see fascism as something else than colonialism of white people, as something with a spiritual component.

                    That solipsism, isn’t that something that also happens in consumerism and nowadays internet entertainment bubbles?

                    I would like to argue that it’s worthwhile to figure out how to reach people in that mental state because fascism and that state of mind are so ubiquitous that violence cannot win.

                    Don’t those scholars have any suggestions beyond violence?

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      5 days ago

      Humanities don’t need funding for expensive laboratories

      i suppose so as long as all your humanities knowledge is already solved with no need to travel to new places, study new locations, or talk to new people

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        5 days ago

        According to wikipedia, humanities neither include archeology nor sociology:

        The humanities include the academic study of philosophy, religion, history, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), the performing arts (theater, music, dance, etc.), and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc.)

        There is no need to travel. The people who research are either there or can be reached via internet.

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          I mean sure sociology may not be classified as a humanities but archeology clearly is: “include the academic study of history” And sure maybe philosophers don’t need to travel but what do you do when you’re a historian and you need to consult historical records in another country? You are listing"the study of the performing art" how do you think people are studying these without going to the representations? And i may be biased because it’s what i am currently studying but how are we supposed to study geography without travelling???

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            Geography is not in the list and archeology is not history.

            If the college is created in a city then there are performances to visit.

            History records have to be limited to scans for the first years.

            In general, research can be limited to what is possible. The important part is the freedom of mind, not the freedom of resources.

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          the pama-nyungan language family is indigenous to Australia and all the languages in that umbrella are either endangered or extrinct already.

          pick one:

          a) it is already safely and thoroughly catalogued or reachable via the Internet

          b) there’s already enough embedded researchers in indigenous Australian communities to study these endangered languages

          c) it’s not humanities for some reason

          d) probably should spend some money getting more students and professors out there to study it

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            It’s difficult to not get snarky. You obviously have studied but you argue against my position that humanities with limited funding is possible with the demand that a new university must be able to fund nieche topics. How is that necessary?

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              because a humanities without “niche topics” is going to cover a very limited subject matter, and in particular, a very certain bias of subject matter! if we design humanities with cost-savings in mind, this is the most inexpensive and readily available culture, language, history: the mainstream, the corporate owned, the majority opinion. funding in humanities expands the horizons and the populace that humanities covers, and without diversity, humanities is not worth teaching

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                You are arguing about the curriculum of a newly established college as if it were the research focus of the entire humanities.

                Diversity doesn’t come from exotic trips but the matetial you cover and the way it is taught and debated. All classic texts are freely available. For centuries that was enough.

                There can be trips and such once money is available. For that you need some alumni to get donations. They will not be there if you don’t start teaching which is, for humanities, possible with a minimal budget.