Maybe cluelessly "entitled" but on the whole the shift in academia began as the Cold War thawed. It was dangerous times to holler out, You can come out of your Ivory Tower now, but that's just what some bowties did. Wasn't even raised voices really but the hush that had been enforced between protected "institution" and "the fringes" was quieting like castle chamber walls. It was totally unprecedented for a professor to ask anybody how're you feeling about the workload, about the material? It was assumed that anybody sitting in front of a podium was up to speed, or, faking it well.
There were a lot of assumptions. Assumptions like snares. Assumptions like elemental fortresses erected precisely to see who...who goes there? How dare you?
How dare you....
Question. How dare you question "authority"...with what authority do you do so?
It was never a game. Barbwired fences swarming the labyrinths of research and development, not a game, knowledge. And it wasn't really a conspiracy...all the intellectuals in the world teaming up to declare SMART and STUPID. The rigor did that by, mostly, pressing peoples' motivation buttons. In order to come to know this, it's better to know this first. In order to accomplish that faster, it'll be easier to take this route.
He can't help sounding that way, he grew up in England. You'll get his humor in a semester or two.
As world relations changed, so too did the degree to which who needs to know what. As information became available, syllabi plumped almost to popping. "Selection" became necessary as in gardens lushing after knowing drought. As tensions heated up in some areas as opposed to others, fellow-learners wanted more experienced to lead the pack, mark the trails, close down danger zones not so more "heretics" could be deemed so, but because danger so often leads to death.
And academia got better at reasoning a let go. "It's not like your leaving me in kindergarten by joining the Services, getting 'a real job', transferring to a different school, whore, I mean, I get it, but I don't get it. I don't feel the same way."
"It's not about feelings."
What is it then?
What is it then?
What is it?
The questions about Academia and life go on and on. Sometimes questioning is nipped in the bud by war, resources, anti-communal sentiment, even changes to how people commune or come together. We can see today on TV that pre-Olympics in a place has places in the mode of less questioning and more presentation. Like, since the world is going to train its microscopes and drones on us, how about we see ourselves first. Best foot first or not, the Olympics are on the group schedule!
Shows about archeological digging even are somewhat stymied by a stand in the present. Getting present to world economy and happening, especially in a global sense, has a bit of head scratching on everyone's part. Are we moving forward?
With the weight of the world on conscience and in realities...not sure forward is the best description for moments like this.
No, no, noooooo. I'm not "moving forward", nope, not it. That woman just said Nero was not diabolical. Nope.
I'm so lost right now. Are the decades colliding?
"Christianity, in its true form, tells us that there is an Author and that he is good, the essence of all that is good and beautiful and true, for he is the source of all these things. It tells us that he has set our hearts' longings within us, for he has made us to live in an Epic. It warns that the truth is always in danger of being twisted and corrupted and stolen from us because there is a Villain in the Story who hates our hearts and wants to destroy us. It calls us up into a Story that is truer and deeper than any other, and assures us that there we will find the meaning of our lives.
"What if?
"What if all the great stories that have ever moved you, brought you joy or tears--what if they are telling you something about the true Story into which you were born, the Epic into which you have been cast?
"We won't begin to understand our lives, or what this so-called gospel is that Christianity speaks of, until we understand the Story in which we have found ourselves. For when you were born, you were born into an Epic that has already been underway for quite some time" (14,15 Epic: The Story God Is Telling, Eldredge).
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