With No Intellectual Boundaries, Geniuses Are Instantly Born

A friend of mine is a professor of architecture at a local French university. During our conversation, he said something which tied into the subject of relativism recently discussed on this blog. There's an annoying habit among students to challenge professors or ideas with scant evidence or proper thinking. Attempts to educate or inform the student sometimes fail. Why? In the mind of contemporary students, an opinion is equal to facts. "It's my opinion" is a tool used to deflect any truths or axioms dictated by not just architectural laws but any scientific law as well. It makes his job harder that's for sure.

Which brings me to this article titled, "Post-Modern attacks on science and reality."

On a different note, though not entirely unrelated, I would like to recount the story of an overly sensitive student I had the pleasure of witnessing in university. On this particular day, the professor was discussing Edmund Burke and his ideas. Of course, some of the language and beliefs held by Burke (by today's confused relativist standards anyway) could offend a politically correct charged mind. As the professor quoted some of Burke's ideas, the student began an all out assault on the professor himself. He was upset the professor would dare speak of Burke.

Taken aback, the professor kindly reminded our super-intellect that it was not he who penned the words. Undeterred, brainiac went off on nonsensical tangents about racism in Africa. With each passing second, the situation became more and more surreal and depraved.

My friend, who was in commerce at the time, had decided to sit in on the lecture with me that day. He leaned over to me and said, "man, is our educational system failing us somewhere."

What passes off as critical thinking really is shitty open-ended gibberish with no beginning or end point.

Think of this next time you read an oft-quoted and referenced (I don't get that at all) Noam Chomsky and his ilk. In the end, all it really is is hopeless one-sided drivel. They think they speak of truth when in fact they sail farther from it.

Employing open-ended logic, you can make your job easier since you really don't have to prove your positions because, you know, it's your opinion.

Here's a unkind reminder: Some opinions can be deemed wrong.