So many terrible ideas have come from Francophone intellectuals since the French Revolution, from the General Will to Deconstruction and the Left Bank’s love affair with Maoism. Privileged college students latch on to many of these ideas as a way to expiate their own guilt for their own status, and the humanities has morphed into fan ser…
So many terrible ideas have come from Francophone intellectuals since the French Revolution, from the General Will to Deconstruction and the Left Bank’s love affair with Maoism. Privileged college students latch on to many of these ideas as a way to expiate their own guilt for their own status, and the humanities has morphed into fan service and conformity to serve this desire of trust fund kids to dabble in radicalism.
Unfortunately the essential incoherence and illiberalism that isn’t a problem in a university setting has bled out into the culture, where it is having terrible effects. It is a tragedy that those given the responsibility to preserve and pass down the best of the Western Greco Roman Judeo Christian tradition have instead poisoned and prejudiced entire generations against it, and we see the results in the streets, the mental hospitals, and on TikTok.
So many terrible ideas have come from Francophone intellectuals since the French Revolution, from the General Will to Deconstruction and the Left Bank’s love affair with Maoism. Privileged college students latch on to many of these ideas as a way to expiate their own guilt for their own status, and the humanities has morphed into fan service and conformity to serve this desire of trust fund kids to dabble in radicalism.
Unfortunately the essential incoherence and illiberalism that isn’t a problem in a university setting has bled out into the culture, where it is having terrible effects. It is a tragedy that those given the responsibility to preserve and pass down the best of the Western Greco Roman Judeo Christian tradition have instead poisoned and prejudiced entire generations against it, and we see the results in the streets, the mental hospitals, and on TikTok.