On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Peter Ward <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Right, but universities (like churches, corporations, nation-states
> etc) were created to serve vested interests not promote free-
> thinking. It's only be tremendous opposition to their institutional
> logic that we end up with the small amount of serious debate we
> actually do (the natural sciences, of course, exceptions for the
> time being).
>
> We should always try to mitigate the reactionary harm universities
> do but also not delude ourselves about what they are--what the can
> hopefully become is another matter.
>
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