"The first thing we
do, let's kill all the lawyers," said Shakespeare's "Dick
The Butcher," supposedly making a joke. In today's world I would
expand that to humanities professors.
The problem seems to stem
from professorships being a paid occupation, from the pressure to
continually publish academic work to further careers, and from there
being too many hungry professors. Deeper than that, humanities
professors, like normal people, are driven by natural wills to power
and the drive for survival and reproductive success, whether they are
conscious of it our not.
Such hooey as
“post-structuralist” deconstruction, Lacanian analysis, ect. was brought to our colleges and universities by French intellectuals---who tend to like
over-complication---and
was greedily picked up by American professors desperate to publish
academic work to further their careers or perish. The gibberish of
postmodernism was also a way to attack the hated traditional West
since most of these slight of hand academics were Marxist, or
cultural Marxists.
In one or two simplified
herculean sweeps the verdicts of the science of sociobiology could
clean out the Augean
stables of our postmodern humanities departments, which contain a great amount
of horseshit.
Edward O. Wilson, the
father of the science of sociobiology wrote: "The genes hold
culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values
will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human
gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior. . .is
the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and
will be kept intact. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate
function."
Wilson or his younger
followers would be my choice to clean out our humanities departments and virtually begin again. It won't be easy because
who wants to lose the two cars in every garage and the large Smart
Led TV?
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