/edu/ - Education

>>25443
what specifically are you doubting?

>>25403
nationalism begins as a liberal movement with the french revolution, but has its prehistory in the reformation, where kings would claim sovereignty against the catholic church and so establish independence. it has since been appropriated by both the far left and far right as means of self-determination.
>>25395
national socialism was an existing movement which hitler became part of; he did not create it. the earliest mention of "national socialism" is in 1898, but it becomes official with rudolf jung's "der nationale sozialismus" (1919). in the book, anticapitalism and volkism is specified, with a special interest on fighting usury. there were of course internal divisions in NS, most notably the "socialist" wing in people like strasser, while hitler took the side of the industrialists.

>>25447
A product of its' time, among many axial texts such as those of Buddhists and Confucianists. Some modern philosophers of science have proposed that they make better sense as a collection of 'sacred metaphors', that is, truthisms that let readers (or listeners, as before the Protestant Reformation the Bible was recited among a crowd instead of read privately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectio_Divina) break frame and connect themselves to their lived world. In this sense, there's a lot of evidence of an Aristotelian methodology within the Bible, which is something I typically talk about with the LW Protestants (Lutheran, Episcopalian, Eucharists) in my city to make the case for commie politics.

That being said, I don't believe the Bible is literally truthful, or even reliable, historical text. I think the prevalence of a literal interpretation comes from the myth-fetishism (folk theories) that most people have to shortcut understanding how the meaning of a thing relates to its' literal expression. Though I wouldn't doubt that's a holdover of religion in general being used as the locus of social control for millennia.

If you're interested in this, I ended up learning this framing of sacred texts in general from this one (sometimes annoyingly liberal) CogSci doctor from UoT. It's a 50-hour long web lecture series. I'll link the playlist here: https://johnvervaeke.com/series/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis/

>>25470
that is just anglos being protestants

The idea that humans are innately evil is the most toxic idea you could ever implant into civilization, to indoctrinate people into believing that their lives have no intrinsic value and take away their self-awareness and agency and consciousness and everything else that makes them human, and turn them into passive dummies who only seek external validation. It lays the groundwork for totalitarianism, acclimatizing people to the idea that only an outside authority figure can tell you who you are; you can never know the answer yourself and you should never try to find out.

>>25495
Humans are inclined to evil but the problem with Christianity is that Christianity wants people to be infantilised patrons for Jehovah and Jesus.

“Not by my will, but HIs Will”
“Without Jesus, my life has no purpose”

It reeks of vulnerable narcissism, using God as your ego shield

>>25501
only a life-denying, nihilistic religion like christianity can convince people of martyrdom. the idea that being tortured to death by rapists who will conquer your land is better than fighting them is peak psyop shit;
>oh, please crucify me upside down!
this is why peter holds the keys to the kingdom lol

>>25429
Use these PDFs in AI. You will see the magic.

Bump.

Based.

>>25430
This is liberal garbage on par with something I'd read from Alex Karp.

>>25492
This is literally neutral. It is a Memetic Warfare System integrated with AI.

RIP. Millions must read miataken identity, one of the best criticisms of identity politics within the left while being committed to black, queer and female liberation.

>>25466
Advanced Chinese Reader (3/3)
I can only find a pdf of the reader, unfortunately
Here is a link to the textbook's Yale Press page anyhow https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300000566/advanced-chinese/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advanced-chinese-reader/id716763840

>>25449
To be honest, i have never seen written Azerbaijani in Iran. The Azeri friends i have had mostly seem to speak it and that, only at home or with each other.

I did find this old document from pre-revolution era which appears to have been written in the Persian script.

>>25456
Interesting, Though anyone who has dipped his toes in Language Learning is sure to have heard of Anki.

>>25439
Education especially in the humanities is a giant hazing ritual so you can finally join the club.

>>25439
No it isn't you fucking moron. The intelligentsia has a specific function and it was critiqued extensively by actually existing instances of socialism throughout history. They were not conceptually opposed to education proper, but neither is the OP's post–you are inferring a conflation where it doesn't actually exist. What is being insinuated is an issue with the system as it presently exists, which is not even an inaccurate take. It is INFNITELY more reactionary to defend the institutions as they currently exist, to reinforce the hegemonic arm of the intelligentsia, and to pretend that academia is somehow objectively neutral.

>>25484
By 'they' I mean people like Lenin, Marx etc.

>>25485
>>25484
Moreover, the entire premise of education (as it currently exists) is one of submission. It isn't an accidental stroke of etymology that you have to 'submit' a paper ;).
To deviate from the accepted standards is an unconscionable act, and deserves to be met only with browbeating in the eyes of the imperious arbitrators.
If you truly think critically, you'll come to the realization that much of academia is a kind of 'ritual' more than it is anything transcendentally objective; most of its presuppositions are arbitrary and cannot be honestly defended, and so they fall back upon the circularity of their own tautological self-validation, either through demanding accreditation (circular) or through deferring to likeminded communities who already predispose themselves to the starting premise that education *must* be an inherent 'good', i.e. curating their argumentative experience with the likes of reddit and bluesky and academic forums and so on (tautological). The basis of contemporary education is to work backwards from a series of starting presuppositions and deem anyone who attempts to dissent anew from this as 'stupid' or 'ignorant' or 'crazy'. So-called 'common sense' is really just a form of brutal conformism, and it is fundamentally feminine in essence–it is best encapsulated with the spirit of the phrase 'Really? I can't even…' or something akin to that. The very notion that the fundamental foundations might be a festering source is treated as an inconceivably profaned thing. I don't share the same cynicism towards the future possibility of the human condition, or the reading of its full nature, as Eugene, but he is absolutely on the mark at least with respect to the current state of affairs.

Name a single philosopher who has produced anything of world shattering, history moving value from the modern universities. There isn't one. Probably the most interesting figures currently out there are those involved in the speculative realist movement, but in the end, irrelevance is the doomed fate of those who radically innovate (i.e. 'challenge') under this system. If you want to be a philosopher, OP, you must do it for the love of an enduring truth which might one day be excavated and embraced hermeneutically, assuming anything evePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>25486
BTW OP I have a degree in philosophy. It was a waste of time and money and most importantly sanity. All it did was further entrench my hatred for the capitalist world.
Anyone who currently thinks this shit is worthwhile, at least from a philosophical (and not, say, medical–assuming an honest doctor, of course) perspective, is as delusional and pliable to recuperation as someone like Chomsky. It's hilarious to see so many anarchists embrace university. Worshipping a microcosmic mirror of the dynamic the state already serves, thereby telling on themselves in the implicit process: "We want to abolish our lack of power, not to abolish power altogether–we'll forge it again in our image." Very similar logic to Zionism, wherein the phrase "never again" is perverted into indicating "never again TO THE LIKES OF US", rather than being a universalist renunciation of genocide.