Perspective and Learning

around lunchtime on Sunday, the 2nd of March 2008 by Chad

One of my favorite reads, Promethean Antagonist

Just the other day I heard it again, this time from a very respectable and well-educated person (slightly left of center); the stale mantra that there really is no “good” or “bad” side in the pages of history. Even “Hitler was acting for what he felt was best for ‘his people’.” This insight, he explained, was gleaned from his studies at an American liberal arts college (he stressed the fact that it hadn’t occurred to him before this “higher education” epiphany).
This “perspective,” so commonly inculcated upon college students, is something I can honestly say I’ve grown sick of. It manifests in academia and pop culture in a thousand guises and forums.

Happens all too often. People are so easy to sway via propaganda. Especially smart people when they think they’re being “clever.”