(Not exact quotes, just synopses of points I want to remember.)
pg. 168: He says that cults appear when dominant religions fail. He identifies cults as groups that offer allegedly suppressed truths, rally around heterodox leaders, and offer the opportunity to be transgressive.
I really, really, REALLY want to join a cult. The modern religions of the educated professional classes are failing, and I want a person smarter than me to give me the freedom to transgress.
Strangely, one of my favorite pieces of music lately is Lana Del Rey's Off to the Races.
pg. 179: Societies will find no easy resolution if they admit the existence of legitimate grievances and promise just remedies. I don't know that academia can actually deliver remedies, but a bunch of people promised that we would, so here we are.
pg. 185: "A conservative measures social change by the distance from the past; a revolutionary from some mark in the future." Then I wonder what to say of the kool-aid peddlers who proclaim that the revolution is ALREADY HERE AND YOU NEED TO GET ON BOARD NOW!!! They are definitely not conservative, but they are far too interested in their immediate comfort to be revolutionaries.
pg. 198: The burdens placed on universities are inevitable consequences of a post-industrial economy.
Monday, August 27, 2018
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