> Quoting Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org>:
>
>> In my experience, people who spend too many years in
>> college (i.e. Ph.Ds) are highly indoctrinated and VERY out of touch
>> with
>> the news and popular culture.
>
> Hardly. Universities are some of the most politicized communities
> around, with
> demos, speakers, cultural stuff happening which is censored or
> repressed by the
> strip mall insanity called Bananamerica. The US oiligarchy's war on
> higher
> education is the War of the Machines on Zion.
i have to agree. i certainly knew apolitical people in grad school, but also many many people who knew the score and from whom i learned a great deal. many of these people were in history (latin american studies, esp) or american studies, but even in my own (in many respects retro/reactionary) medieval studies program. it was in grad school that i was radicalized, myself. indeed, you might say that it was grad school that radicalized me (insofar as i'm radical), although i'd like to think it would have happened anyway.
j