Reheated (4)
For newcomers, three more items from the archives:
Jim Schnabel’s charmingly bizarre film about Cold War research into extrasensory perception as a tool of espionage. By turns intriguing and hilarious.
Classroom impropriety and the grooming of young minds.
Even if we set aside the not insignificant issue of whether professors of, say, literary criticism have any business trying to “win over” their students and mould their political outlook, reasonably or otherwise, there is another problem. Is the student-professor relationship sufficiently equal and reciprocal to ensure evidence and reason prevail? Is there no pressure on students to defer, to please? Can we simply assume that improper leverage will never be brought to bear – for instance, in terms of grading or more subtle signs of displeasure? And isn’t there an unavoidable air of… predation?
A Guardian writer asks, Am I Fit to Breed? Other, less hesitant souls long for human extinction.
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David, I missed the Jim Schnabel film first time round. It’s wonderful. Thanks for reposting the link.
“A Guardian writer asks, Am I Fit to Breed?”
Well, since he asked and then wrote extensively about it, I’d have to say no…
Madness, thy name is environmentalism.