{"id":7111,"date":"2015-06-04T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/04\/the-age-of-feeling-or-the-age-of-pussies\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:32:08","slug":"the-age-of-feeling-or-the-age-of-pussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/04\/the-age-of-feeling-or-the-age-of-pussies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Feeling or the Age of Pussies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both.  Here<\/a> is a liberal professor, writing (not very well) under a pseudonym (of course!) who says he or she is terrified of his or her liberal students. But he or she does make a good point when he or she points to the consumerist mentality that prevails among students.   That's been in place for a long time now and is one of the reasons I gave up a tenured position in 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Cooke comments on the above piece here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the phrases one increasingly hears these days is 'comfort zone.'  I humbly suggest that if you are not prepared to leave said zone on a regular basis you will never really live<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

One needs stress to grow, mentally, physically, and in every way.  Stress is not to be had in a 'safe space.'  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Glaubt es mir! \u2013 das Geheimnis, um die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Fruchtbarkeit und den gr\u00f6\u00dften Genu\u00df vom Dasein einzuernten, hei\u00dft: gef\u00e4hrlich leben!<\/em> For believe me! \u2014 the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!<\/strong> Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! (Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science<\/em>, sec. 283, tr. Walter Kaufmann)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is a website by the name of The Philosophers' Cocoon<\/a>.  You read that right: cocoon<\/em>.  On the masthead: "A safe and supportive forum for early-career philosophers."<\/span><\/p>\n

Years ago I answered a reader's e-mail on line, providing his full name.  The topic was technical and non-political.  A while back he contacted me because he wanted his name removed from an arcane post buried deep in my archives.  I did so.  But then he started worrying about his name's occurrence in the ComBox . . . . <\/span><\/p>\n

Now I sympathize with the young and unestablished.  We live in nasty, illiberal times.  I've made mine, so it requires no great courage to speak the truth under my real name. But it requires some, and more need to 'man up' and 'woman up' to confront the fascist scum on the Left.  There is such a thing as civil courage<\/a> without the exercise of which by large numbers we are done for as a free republic.  Click on the link for another example of a reader who requested that his name be removed from my weblog.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you are unfamiliar with the disgusting Laura Kipnis affair, bang on this<\/a>.  Dreher's piece ends ominously.
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UPDATE:<\/strong> A nationally known conservative college professor, a man who is well into his career, and protected by tenure, just wrote to say \u201cit\u2019s worse than you think,\u201d then sent evidence. He said this has definitely had a chilling effect on the lectures he gives, for fear of triggering a Little Empress or Emperor, who will set out to ruin his academic life. I\u2019m not going to quote his post, because I want to protect him and his position on his campus. But he adds:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If I had to do it over again, I would have never, ever entered academia. I cringe when I think of the few young, ambitious, and bright conservatives who are entering the academy now who have no idea of how even uttering their viewpoints will be turned against them to destroy them.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A safe and supportive forum for early-career philosophers. – See more at: http:\/\/philosopherscocoon.typepad.com\/#sthash.d68YIgKt.dpuf<\/span><\/div>\n
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Both.  Here is a liberal professor, writing (not very well) under a pseudonym (of course!) who says he or she is terrified of his or her liberal students. But he or she does make a good point when he or she points to the consumerist mentality that prevails among students.   That's been in place … Continue reading “The Age of Feeling or the Age of Pussies?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,180,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}