I don't like a lot about Stacey Abrams but the All-Star game being moved broke hearts. When she was president of the universe in Star whatever I just stopped with them.
The fast spreading "woke" nihilism in western academia onto K-12 education and arts & culture reminds me of the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan. It's ignorant and superficial but deeply damaging. Whatever the original high flying ideals may have been, Its goal now can not be seen as being "critical", in matter of fact anything that has "critical" in its title these days is anything but, but to destroy history, tradition and culture in the name of some juvenile imagined new wordly harmony of endless multitudes of races, genders, ethnicities, cultures and ...fill in here your favorite fantasy of heaven on earth. Everything and everybody is "racist" and "imperialist" and the meaning of words and terminology have been watered down to mean actually almost nothing. The new educators are the least educated. It's a comedy and a tragedy.
In October, 2020, I received an email from my alma mater, Indiana University, with this:
"IU has long been committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And IU has reaffirmed this commitment with recent initiatives, such as the Racial Justice Research Fund, the IU Anti-Racist Agenda, the IU Pandemic Health Disparities Fund, the Black Philanthropy Circle and Queer Philanthropy Circle, and the University Naming Committee.
Still, we know there is more work to be done.
I ask you to join us in this work by supporting the IU Equity Fund."
I replied that I was sorry to hear how racist IU had become since I attended in the '80s, when there was no evidence of discrimination and everyone got along just fine. I told them I'm sure they will understand that I can't give any money until they get their house in order. No response, of course.
Hey, I got the same exact email from my college, but just put it in the trash.
It is truly amazing how the post-Marxist zombies of Crit Theory have conquered the entire Anglosphere, with their clouds of dead jargon and their constant demands that read like a hostage note and reek of self-righteous moral blackmail.
We are without a doubt living through a cultural revolution.
Yes, they just wanted to pick my pocket. IU's endowment was $3.3 billion by June 2021, a 37% increase from a year earlier. And I'm pretty sure they didn't refund anyone's tuition when they shut everything down. Fear and propaganda are good business.
A local ski shop, full of helpful and friendly staff, has a Black Lives Matter placard in the middle of the floor. I give it a wide birth, as if they were displaying an S.S. Death's Head insignia, but to the staff I guess it just seems normal.
I do not mean to seem petty, but I've worked at universities for years and have worked with a focus on these issues (before they became performative). If I needed $500 to pay for a booth at a recruitment fair the university would not provide it. If I saw a need to contribute to a minority scholarship fund, I would do it myself. I can't help but resent the pleas now from development offices when if a few $$ had been provided for us actually doing the recruiting 15-20 years ago we might not be in a bad situation today (or at least that's what they tell us). If anyone wants to help, go directly to whatever entity in your field provides scholarships--not to the huge admin. apparatus where so much of your donation will get lost in overhead.
BLM signs, Pride flags, those preachy placards w No One is Illegal etc, these are just the symbols, slogans/chants, icons of a new religion, Social Justice, which seems to be the sacred belief system of younger more urban, secular, educated people and the corporate global institutions who these young people look up to like a chick looks for its mama.
I try to think of myself as a pagan in post-Constantine Rome, a worshipper of a different older tradition w different sacred beliefs—it mostly helps keep me sane and I'm sure it flatters my vanity too.
If what we think of as universities were founded in the 13th century, then for say their first 700 yrs they were quasi-religious institutions that considered teaching theology and inculcating religious morality as their first priority. Men were being sculpted to serve god and country! So the recent 50 yrs or so of the notion of college as an intellectual free-for-all, a place where any and all ideas could be debated, was actually the aberration and our glorious interregnum of freedom was just a placeholder until a new religion appeared to swallow our sense-making and morals-instruction institutions.
So we're just back to where we started: professors are priests, priests are professors, you either bow to the ruling gods or be expelled, if no one ever sees you chanting the proper slogans a whisper campaign against you will commence, and all our supposed cultural/intellectual leaders and institutions earn their keep by providing moral legitimacy to the ruling class.
(Or at least this is what I tell myself in order to maintain my sanity.)
When Harvard added the business school (I read somewhere) the theology faculty--the Queen of Sciences--were sure it would fail. These days if you have any ideas different than the party-line you need to keep them to yourself.
I guess all new faiths start out as fundamentalisms, with punitive policing of dogma and rigid morality plus a priestly caste jockeying for power and influence, and every prior existing institution subsumed and repurposed in the new faith (as the Christians made pagan shrines into churches and minor deities into saints etc).
I could see a possible Thermidor or counter-revolt in our society, but definitely not in arts, culture, academia, these are safely conquered territories of the New Left and I don't see them being dethroned in my lifetime. (Hope I'm wrong!)
What a fantastic tip. Reading through some of the course descriptions left me - as Annie Lennox once so beautifully sang - "feeling complicated." I think of the several thousand eighteen and nineteen year-old freshmen, as open to deep work as most of them will ever be in their entire lives, dropping into English 10, where they can learn how writers "around the world... [address] current problems of economic inequality, technological change, structural prejudice, and divisive politics." In short, the dull world view these so young people have been mastering through high school will be validated and confirmed: everything is political. Where are "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself"? All that work to get into Harvard and... this? It seems like such a waste of human spirit. Let's just stamp out another generation of human beings who cannot think for themselves.
Harvard, its motto notwithstanding, understands itself first and foremost as the crucible of elite culture in the US and, to the extent that US culture drives global affairs, the shaper of elite global culture. People desperate to send their children to these types of institutions should seriously consider what they're striving for. Harvard trains priests, and it always has.
Have you ever spoken with one of them? They claim it's not discrimination when used to limit Asian enrollment. They even discuss (with a straight face) discriminating against some black students because they're from . . . Africa! Anything to rationalize the sole cause of the achievement gap as being racism.
I was a Literature major in college in the 80s so I got to witness the birth of ths monster up close, and it is a project of pure resentment-inspired destruction, and the postmodern post-Marxists have worked hard to smear our entire cultural heritage for its supposed political crimes.
And now, somehow with the full backing of every cultural institution in the Anglosphere, they've managed to convince just about everyone under 30 that all of Western culture is more or less a single uninterrupted hate crime.
It just goes to show you that people with strong beliefs (no matter how stupid or malevolent) always defeat people with no beliefs, and how easy it is for a band of committed fanatics to destroy all that they could never create.
The New Left waged a 50-yr campaign to seize the means of cultural production, they have been wildly successful, and now we have to live in the wreckage.
Thank you for the link to this list. I just finished reading a bunch of the Harvard English department course descriptions and I needed a pick me up. This was it!
I have it on good authority that in the original Rome was a F2M transgender man and Juliet was a M2F transgender woman; they didn't commit suicide but were killed by the white supremacist patriarchy. And Montague and Capulet are an anagram for critical race theory in an alternative spelling of Runes.
Looks like 'Creative New Zealand' decision makers should be sacked either for ignorance or incompetence - you referenced articles (especially the very much the non-post Marxist WSWS analysis) provide ample indications.
Other than that, the idea of these plays just being the result of an individual author goes against what we know of how plays were created in that era - they were very much collective effort, even involving the audience. Publishing them was an afterthought. This is not to deny Shakespeare's central role, but to refute attempts to projet modern notions of 'authorship' back into his era.*
*Masten, Jeffrey A. 1992. « Beaumont and/or Fletcher: Collaboration and the Interpretation of Renaissance Drama ». English Literary History 59 (2): 337‑56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2873346.
• This is a group that pretends to speak for Jews. In reality, it's just another banal, standard Dem Party/liberal activist group whose core function is to exploit these causes to agitate for censorship of anyone who questions liberal establishment orthodoxy.
It's the Jewish @HRC
ADL: “Today, we are joining dozens of other groups to ask advertisers to pause Twitter spending because we are profoundly concerned about antisemitism and hate on the platform. Here's why we're asking advertisers to #StopHateForProfit and #StopToxicTwitter -- https://stophateforprofit.org/statement-calling-on-advertisers”
• The scam is to scare corporations by knowing they'll be accused of anti-Semitism unless they bow to ADL's dictates about what ideas and people they can and can't associate with, just as @HRC exploits reckless homophobia accusations to coerce obedience. It's pro-DNC censorship.
• (re-tweet): AOC is a deeply unserious person
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Elon Musk is sabotaging her Twitter account
• Joy Reid's understanding of history really does begin in 2017. As sketchy as that understanding is, she has no idea that history existed before Trump. The ignorance is stunning. How can someone like this be on TV every night talking about politics, even to a tiny audience?
• In 1974, "President Ford plunged headfirst into the crisis. His first and most public move was to combat inflation. He declared inflation 'public enemy number one.'"
Ford's brand was "WIN: Whip Inflation Now."
How the fuck does Joy Reid know nothing about everything???
• This little dunce - who wouldn't sacrifice for a cause if he lived to be 1,000 - thinks the Kremlin told Snowden to re-tweet a WashPost reporter's mention of a George Will column lightly critiquing Kamala Harris.
• How do these people mock QAnon when they're as conspiratorial?
Aaron Rupar @atrupar: “it really isn't when you realize that Snowden's entire purpose right now is using his platform to advance the Russian government's interests -- hurting the Democratic Party and thereby helping Republicans win office, which ultimately will undermine the US's support for Ukraine twitter.com/_GreatDelusion…”
• But that tweet does express one of the core views of Democratic partisans in media. It's really how they think now.
If you criticize the Dem Party or its leaders then, by definition, you're doing the work of the Kremlin. All critics of Biden are, by definition, Putin stooges.
• Sometimes, parts of our politics become so insane and unhinged for so long that one forgets how demented they are. Starting in 2017, it became completely standard for Dem politicians and DNC media stars to accuse all critics of being Kremlin assets:
Michael Tracey @mtracey:
Congressman Can't Answer Simple Question About His Own Bill, So Accuses Me of Working for the Russian Government
• The primary tactic of American liberalism (Dem Party version) is to police and control the flow of information online by silencing, de-platforming, excluding and otherwise punishing anyone who questions of dissents from their pieties and decrees of Truth and Falsity.
Elon Musk @elonmusk: “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
• The lesson Democrats (and their US Security State partners) derived from their humiliating 2016 loss was that the preservation and expansion of their power requires tight control over the internet.
Corporate power (through advertising pressure) is one of their primary tools.
• This is why *the overwhelming majority* of Democrats support **state control** of information online in the name of fighting "disinformation."
In other words, if Big Tech won't capitulate to their censorship demands, Dems want political leaders to mandate that censorship.
• I spoke last night on Fox about a woefully under-covered story: The EU made it *illegal* for any platform to air RT or other Russian media. Now France is demanding US platforms, such as Rumble, obey this and remove RT. Rumble refused, defending its right to air what it wants
I sub to MT and GG and I support Musk's innovation so much I did the best thing I could think of..got a model 3. I hear reports abt Joy Reid and never watch but she is truly clueless. Of course inflation is something we all know. If for no other reason than the COL indexes which have been around since, I think, Nixon. Retired people know, people on disability know, veterans know. How can someone have a powerful megaphone and be so unknowledgeable? Has she never heard of Weimar Germany? She could read this book: Widdig, Bernd. Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
I've seen this on more than one campus: an official rejection of the Western Canon because it's based on the achievements of white males. But without that, what's left to teach? Leftist propaganda?
Ironically, the academic elites are engaging anti-intellectualism to bolster their own control of intellectual thought.
I don't like a lot about Stacey Abrams but the All-Star game being moved broke hearts. When she was president of the universe in Star whatever I just stopped with them.
The fast spreading "woke" nihilism in western academia onto K-12 education and arts & culture reminds me of the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan. It's ignorant and superficial but deeply damaging. Whatever the original high flying ideals may have been, Its goal now can not be seen as being "critical", in matter of fact anything that has "critical" in its title these days is anything but, but to destroy history, tradition and culture in the name of some juvenile imagined new wordly harmony of endless multitudes of races, genders, ethnicities, cultures and ...fill in here your favorite fantasy of heaven on earth. Everything and everybody is "racist" and "imperialist" and the meaning of words and terminology have been watered down to mean actually almost nothing. The new educators are the least educated. It's a comedy and a tragedy.
Sometimes I read course offerings in literature departments and bios of faculty. Here is Harvard: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/
In October, 2020, I received an email from my alma mater, Indiana University, with this:
"IU has long been committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. And IU has reaffirmed this commitment with recent initiatives, such as the Racial Justice Research Fund, the IU Anti-Racist Agenda, the IU Pandemic Health Disparities Fund, the Black Philanthropy Circle and Queer Philanthropy Circle, and the University Naming Committee.
Still, we know there is more work to be done.
I ask you to join us in this work by supporting the IU Equity Fund."
I replied that I was sorry to hear how racist IU had become since I attended in the '80s, when there was no evidence of discrimination and everyone got along just fine. I told them I'm sure they will understand that I can't give any money until they get their house in order. No response, of course.
That's a great response.
Hey, I got the same exact email from my college, but just put it in the trash.
It is truly amazing how the post-Marxist zombies of Crit Theory have conquered the entire Anglosphere, with their clouds of dead jargon and their constant demands that read like a hostage note and reek of self-righteous moral blackmail.
We are without a doubt living through a cultural revolution.
Yes, they just wanted to pick my pocket. IU's endowment was $3.3 billion by June 2021, a 37% increase from a year earlier. And I'm pretty sure they didn't refund anyone's tuition when they shut everything down. Fear and propaganda are good business.
A local ski shop, full of helpful and friendly staff, has a Black Lives Matter placard in the middle of the floor. I give it a wide birth, as if they were displaying an S.S. Death's Head insignia, but to the staff I guess it just seems normal.
I do not mean to seem petty, but I've worked at universities for years and have worked with a focus on these issues (before they became performative). If I needed $500 to pay for a booth at a recruitment fair the university would not provide it. If I saw a need to contribute to a minority scholarship fund, I would do it myself. I can't help but resent the pleas now from development offices when if a few $$ had been provided for us actually doing the recruiting 15-20 years ago we might not be in a bad situation today (or at least that's what they tell us). If anyone wants to help, go directly to whatever entity in your field provides scholarships--not to the huge admin. apparatus where so much of your donation will get lost in overhead.
BLM signs, Pride flags, those preachy placards w No One is Illegal etc, these are just the symbols, slogans/chants, icons of a new religion, Social Justice, which seems to be the sacred belief system of younger more urban, secular, educated people and the corporate global institutions who these young people look up to like a chick looks for its mama.
I try to think of myself as a pagan in post-Constantine Rome, a worshipper of a different older tradition w different sacred beliefs—it mostly helps keep me sane and I'm sure it flatters my vanity too.
When you've been slogging along for years trying to do the right thing and all this negates that.
If what we think of as universities were founded in the 13th century, then for say their first 700 yrs they were quasi-religious institutions that considered teaching theology and inculcating religious morality as their first priority. Men were being sculpted to serve god and country! So the recent 50 yrs or so of the notion of college as an intellectual free-for-all, a place where any and all ideas could be debated, was actually the aberration and our glorious interregnum of freedom was just a placeholder until a new religion appeared to swallow our sense-making and morals-instruction institutions.
So we're just back to where we started: professors are priests, priests are professors, you either bow to the ruling gods or be expelled, if no one ever sees you chanting the proper slogans a whisper campaign against you will commence, and all our supposed cultural/intellectual leaders and institutions earn their keep by providing moral legitimacy to the ruling class.
(Or at least this is what I tell myself in order to maintain my sanity.)
Thanks so much, Kathleen.
When Harvard added the business school (I read somewhere) the theology faculty--the Queen of Sciences--were sure it would fail. These days if you have any ideas different than the party-line you need to keep them to yourself.
I guess all new faiths start out as fundamentalisms, with punitive policing of dogma and rigid morality plus a priestly caste jockeying for power and influence, and every prior existing institution subsumed and repurposed in the new faith (as the Christians made pagan shrines into churches and minor deities into saints etc).
I could see a possible Thermidor or counter-revolt in our society, but definitely not in arts, culture, academia, these are safely conquered territories of the New Left and I don't see them being dethroned in my lifetime. (Hope I'm wrong!)
What a fantastic tip. Reading through some of the course descriptions left me - as Annie Lennox once so beautifully sang - "feeling complicated." I think of the several thousand eighteen and nineteen year-old freshmen, as open to deep work as most of them will ever be in their entire lives, dropping into English 10, where they can learn how writers "around the world... [address] current problems of economic inequality, technological change, structural prejudice, and divisive politics." In short, the dull world view these so young people have been mastering through high school will be validated and confirmed: everything is political. Where are "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself"? All that work to get into Harvard and... this? It seems like such a waste of human spirit. Let's just stamp out another generation of human beings who cannot think for themselves.
Harvard, its motto notwithstanding, understands itself first and foremost as the crucible of elite culture in the US and, to the extent that US culture drives global affairs, the shaper of elite global culture. People desperate to send their children to these types of institutions should seriously consider what they're striving for. Harvard trains priests, and it always has.
I hope the U.S. Supreme Court will give Harvard soon what it deserves!
I don't know how they can profess so nobly (Black Lives Matter! on their website) and then discriminate.
Have you ever spoken with one of them? They claim it's not discrimination when used to limit Asian enrollment. They even discuss (with a straight face) discriminating against some black students because they're from . . . Africa! Anything to rationalize the sole cause of the achievement gap as being racism.
AMEN!
I was a Literature major in college in the 80s so I got to witness the birth of ths monster up close, and it is a project of pure resentment-inspired destruction, and the postmodern post-Marxists have worked hard to smear our entire cultural heritage for its supposed political crimes.
And now, somehow with the full backing of every cultural institution in the Anglosphere, they've managed to convince just about everyone under 30 that all of Western culture is more or less a single uninterrupted hate crime.
It just goes to show you that people with strong beliefs (no matter how stupid or malevolent) always defeat people with no beliefs, and how easy it is for a band of committed fanatics to destroy all that they could never create.
The New Left waged a 50-yr campaign to seize the means of cultural production, they have been wildly successful, and now we have to live in the wreckage.
But look at the top 100 books owned by libraries. Your phrase "resentment-inspired destruction" is very cogent, but few seem to break through.
https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/library100.html
Thank you for the link to this list. I just finished reading a bunch of the Harvard English department course descriptions and I needed a pick me up. This was it!
I have it on good authority that in the original Rome was a F2M transgender man and Juliet was a M2F transgender woman; they didn't commit suicide but were killed by the white supremacist patriarchy. And Montague and Capulet are an anagram for critical race theory in an alternative spelling of Runes.
Over the years I have seen so many different tellings of WS plays...the cancellers have no creativity.
Looks like 'Creative New Zealand' decision makers should be sacked either for ignorance or incompetence - you referenced articles (especially the very much the non-post Marxist WSWS analysis) provide ample indications.
Other than that, the idea of these plays just being the result of an individual author goes against what we know of how plays were created in that era - they were very much collective effort, even involving the audience. Publishing them was an afterthought. This is not to deny Shakespeare's central role, but to refute attempts to projet modern notions of 'authorship' back into his era.*
*Masten, Jeffrey A. 1992. « Beaumont and/or Fletcher: Collaboration and the Interpretation of Renaissance Drama ». English Literary History 59 (2): 337‑56. https://doi.org/10.2307/2873346.
This is way too insightful for the 'Creative New Zealand' bunch, but they should read it.
Well, at least the outcry that this is causing will probably make more people aware of how much Shakespeare has to offer to modern life and culture.
There is room to honor all writers. This was crazy.
FYI (optional reading 😉 ) GG tweets – extracted ~Nov 7 period https://twitter.com/ggreenwald
• This is a group that pretends to speak for Jews. In reality, it's just another banal, standard Dem Party/liberal activist group whose core function is to exploit these causes to agitate for censorship of anyone who questions liberal establishment orthodoxy.
It's the Jewish @HRC
ADL: “Today, we are joining dozens of other groups to ask advertisers to pause Twitter spending because we are profoundly concerned about antisemitism and hate on the platform. Here's why we're asking advertisers to #StopHateForProfit and #StopToxicTwitter -- https://stophateforprofit.org/statement-calling-on-advertisers”
• The scam is to scare corporations by knowing they'll be accused of anti-Semitism unless they bow to ADL's dictates about what ideas and people they can and can't associate with, just as @HRC exploits reckless homophobia accusations to coerce obedience. It's pro-DNC censorship.
• (re-tweet): AOC is a deeply unserious person
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Elon Musk is sabotaging her Twitter account
• Joy Reid's understanding of history really does begin in 2017. As sketchy as that understanding is, she has no idea that history existed before Trump. The ignorance is stunning. How can someone like this be on TV every night talking about politics, even to a tiny audience?
• In 1974, "President Ford plunged headfirst into the crisis. His first and most public move was to combat inflation. He declared inflation 'public enemy number one.'"
Ford's brand was "WIN: Whip Inflation Now."
How the fuck does Joy Reid know nothing about everything???
• This little dunce - who wouldn't sacrifice for a cause if he lived to be 1,000 - thinks the Kremlin told Snowden to re-tweet a WashPost reporter's mention of a George Will column lightly critiquing Kamala Harris.
• How do these people mock QAnon when they're as conspiratorial?
Aaron Rupar @atrupar: “it really isn't when you realize that Snowden's entire purpose right now is using his platform to advance the Russian government's interests -- hurting the Democratic Party and thereby helping Republicans win office, which ultimately will undermine the US's support for Ukraine twitter.com/_GreatDelusion…”
• But that tweet does express one of the core views of Democratic partisans in media. It's really how they think now.
If you criticize the Dem Party or its leaders then, by definition, you're doing the work of the Kremlin. All critics of Biden are, by definition, Putin stooges.
• Sometimes, parts of our politics become so insane and unhinged for so long that one forgets how demented they are. Starting in 2017, it became completely standard for Dem politicians and DNC media stars to accuse all critics of being Kremlin assets:
Michael Tracey @mtracey:
Congressman Can't Answer Simple Question About His Own Bill, So Accuses Me of Working for the Russian Government
https://mtracey.substack.com/p/congressman-cant-answer-simple-question
• The primary tactic of American liberalism (Dem Party version) is to police and control the flow of information online by silencing, de-platforming, excluding and otherwise punishing anyone who questions of dissents from their pieties and decrees of Truth and Falsity.
Elon Musk @elonmusk: “Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
• The lesson Democrats (and their US Security State partners) derived from their humiliating 2016 loss was that the preservation and expansion of their power requires tight control over the internet.
Corporate power (through advertising pressure) is one of their primary tools.
• This is why *the overwhelming majority* of Democrats support **state control** of information online in the name of fighting "disinformation."
In other words, if Big Tech won't capitulate to their censorship demands, Dems want political leaders to mandate that censorship.
• I spoke last night on Fox about a woefully under-covered story: The EU made it *illegal* for any platform to air RT or other Russian media. Now France is demanding US platforms, such as Rumble, obey this and remove RT. Rumble refused, defending its right to air what it wants
I sub to MT and GG and I support Musk's innovation so much I did the best thing I could think of..got a model 3. I hear reports abt Joy Reid and never watch but she is truly clueless. Of course inflation is something we all know. If for no other reason than the COL indexes which have been around since, I think, Nixon. Retired people know, people on disability know, veterans know. How can someone have a powerful megaphone and be so unknowledgeable? Has she never heard of Weimar Germany? She could read this book: Widdig, Bernd. Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Thank you !! New Zealand is becoming stranger and stranger -- let Maoris back to power.. ;-))
The US is equally strange: FBI demands 66 YEARS to release data on Seth Rich laptop – (his murder is still unresolved.)
2020 elections were indeed STOLEN – by FBI !!
It gets nuttier and nuttier.
The little news clip I added was from NZ news and they called it "Wackydemia."
🤣
A shame. Where can you write to the Arts Council?
I think another agency hs stepped in to fund them but what a mess.
I've seen this on more than one campus: an official rejection of the Western Canon because it's based on the achievements of white males. But without that, what's left to teach? Leftist propaganda?
Ironically, the academic elites are engaging anti-intellectualism to bolster their own control of intellectual thought.
I teach at a university and kept the added but added to it.