>On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 07:31 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
>
>>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.
Yeah, it's kind of a cliche that academics are pampered and apolitical, but many aren't, and compared to whom? Who's more active? Cab drivers? Telemarketers? Computer programmers?
Doug