Humanities don’t need funding for expensive laboratories
i suppose so as long as all your humanities knowledge is already solved with no need to travel to new places, study new locations, or talk to new people
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seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
What if they cut the funding so that people spend their time punching other people?
To me, it seems like a Luke and the emperor scene. They want the hate.
Humanities don’t need funding for expensive laboratories. What’s holding back people from making their own college?
match@pawb.social 1 week ago
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
According to wikipedia, humanities neither include archeology nor sociology:
The humanities include the academic study of philosophy, religion, history, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), the performing arts (theater, music, dance, etc.), and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc.)
There is no need to travel. The people who research are either there or can be reached via internet.
revanthetrueemperor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean sure sociology may not be classified as a humanities but archeology clearly is: “include the academic study of history” And sure maybe philosophers don’t need to travel but what do you do when you’re a historian and you need to consult historical records in another country? You are listing"the study of the performing art" how do you think people are studying these without going to the representations? And i may be biased because it’s what i am currently studying but how are we supposed to study geography without travelling???
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Geography is not in the list and archeology is not history.
If the college is created in a city then there are performances to visit.
History records have to be limited to scans for the first years.
In general, research can be limited to what is possible. The important part is the freedom of mind, not the freedom of resources.
match@pawb.social 1 week ago
the pama-nyungan language family is indigenous to Australia and all the languages in that umbrella are either endangered or extrinct already.
pick one:
a) it is already safely and thoroughly catalogued pr reachable via the Internet b) there’s already enough embedded researchers in indigenous Australian communities to study these endangered languages c) it’s not humanities for some reason d) probably should spend some money getting more students and professors out there to study it
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
It’s difficult to not get snarky. You obviously have studied but you argue against my position that humanities with limited funding is possible with the demand that a new university must be able to fund nieche topics. How is that necessary?
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
no. please shut the fuck up. so, first, that’s a pseudophilosophical hollywood bastardization of a misunderstanding of a whole big complex philosophical system, via christianity. you understand no part of that. try studying the humanities. please. you need that almost as badly as you need to punch a nazi. feel free to do it while cackling with glee, if that’s what floats your boat.
no. fascism is fleeing reality for a solipsistic fantasy with a blindness powered by feeling persecuted and the thrill of victory. there’s a reason nazis like cocaine and meth so much; it’s basically the healthier version of what they believe in chemical form. but it’s more than that, because they have to flatten the territory to match their incredibly shitty map.
again; please study the humanities. or at least the places where they meet up with STEM and the sex parties get real weird. as soon as you’re done punching nazis. which, again, really really desperately needs doing. and I say punch, but I don’t actually super care if you punch any nazis, I don’t think punching nazis will fix anything.
the punching is a metaphor for shooting.
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
My point is not that fascism is just hate. I am sure you understood it though because you made your position clear.
Still I am intrigued to read more about your theories. That STEM and humanities meetup or the complex philosophical system that I don’t understand, could you give me a hint on where to start digging?
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’m kind of afraid to tell you because you’ll think you understand what the hell you’re talking about after a one hour documentary, like you thought you understood morality generally after the six hours of watching space wizards swing laser swords in each other’s general direction, but the dharmic religions, fuzzy taoism (that’s a whole thing) and bushido-which is mostly separate and kinda based on one guy who was as good at murder as he was bad at skin care. which I think makes me reverse miyamoto musashi.
and there are all sorts of places where they meet. my fav example of it is the old command and control/systems/cybernetics theory, where you had margaret mead(big 20th cultural anthropologist) and john von neumann(pure math guy) at the same conference. you get some in psychopharmacology but we don’t really study that at all scientifically so there’s not a lot there.
again, you don’t have any grasp on what you’re talking about for the first twenty hours. i promise. and if you think you have it figured out at 20 hours, you’re still probably wrong. there are monks that dedicate their lives to understanding this shit. you do not.
if you want the more western friendly version of bhuddism, try neitzsche, but he was deliberately abstruse specifically so dumb fucks wouldn’t think they understood his shit and misconstrue what he was saying. it didn’t work, but it did create a high barrier to entry. maybe that would be a good place to start.
easily3667@lemmus.org 1 week ago
Wow the arrogance and gatekeeping on you
seeigel@feddit.org 1 week ago
Thanks a lot. By chance, do you know a lemmy channel where content in that area is posted?