I have hesitated to tell this story, but today I will--this happened to me in 1992 in college....
My sociology professor spoke openly about his belief that pedophilia was a sexual orientation, and should not be punished...he believed sex with children was acceptable and should be normalized in society.
I was shocked and disgusted. I looked around the class, and it seemed no other student was offended. I stood up and declared the teacher a reprobate. His ideas were evil and wrong. I told the class he had no right to make those statements --he was trying to justify illegal activities. Children were under the age of consent and should be protected, not exploited.
I left class and went to the administration to withdraw and file a complaint against the professor. I heard a few other students also left the class, but that was it.
Five years later, the professor died from AIDS. What troubled me at the time was the lack of outrage --students just accepting his ideology as truth...and that was in 1992.
There’s nothing in the world more Dangerous than an intellectual or academic with an idea. Doubly so when they manage to secure financial backing.
There’s very much a reason why historically access to information and what was published, copied, and distributed to the general public was tightly controlled by Governments and Religions. Beyond any overt Tyrannical desire to exercise control over a populace.
Academics and Intellectuals have plunged the world into chaos and war with their ideas as often as various leaders desire for Conquest, Resources, and Imperial Dominion have. If not more so.
It’s no particular coincidence that Governments, Kingdoms, Religions, and Empires that stood for hundreds of years.
Declined and Toppled one after another throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries after the advent of the printing press. It became radically easier for the ideas of Academics and Intellectuals. Both Good and Bad to spread rapidly.
I have hesitated to tell this story, but today I will--this happened to me in 1992 in college....
My sociology professor spoke openly about his belief that pedophilia was a sexual orientation, and should not be punished...he believed sex with children was acceptable and should be normalized in society.
I was shocked and disgusted. I looked around the class, and it seemed no other student was offended. I stood up and declared the teacher a reprobate. His ideas were evil and wrong. I told the class he had no right to make those statements --he was trying to justify illegal activities. Children were under the age of consent and should be protected, not exploited.
I left class and went to the administration to withdraw and file a complaint against the professor. I heard a few other students also left the class, but that was it.
Five years later, the professor died from AIDS. What troubled me at the time was the lack of outrage --students just accepting his ideology as truth...and that was in 1992.
There’s nothing in the world more Dangerous than an intellectual or academic with an idea. Doubly so when they manage to secure financial backing.
There’s very much a reason why historically access to information and what was published, copied, and distributed to the general public was tightly controlled by Governments and Religions. Beyond any overt Tyrannical desire to exercise control over a populace.
Academics and Intellectuals have plunged the world into chaos and war with their ideas as often as various leaders desire for Conquest, Resources, and Imperial Dominion have. If not more so.
It’s no particular coincidence that Governments, Kingdoms, Religions, and Empires that stood for hundreds of years.
Declined and Toppled one after another throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries after the advent of the printing press. It became radically easier for the ideas of Academics and Intellectuals. Both Good and Bad to spread rapidly.
I learned from listening to Thomas Sowell to be wary of advice from people who don’t face consequences for being wrong. Such as academics.
and poiticians