A few recent articles kicking around some similar ideas to those contained in
my post last week about the value of arts and humanities courses. In The Guardian,
Terry Eagleton goes all serious on us (
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique.”) while
Charlie Brooker is brilliantly, witheringly sarcastic:
“instead of studying the whole of human history, why not focus on a concentrated period, such as the most exciting five minutes of the second world war?” And in a similar spirit, blogger
Robin Tomens vows to join the philistines:
“Perhaps I could reinvent myself as the type who doesn’t watch foreign films or listen to ‘weird’ music. This could be my New Year’s resolution. After all, who would care or notice?”Read them all. Because you can.
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