Churches used to pretend that they were a doorway to truth. Some still pretend that. But more and more of us (few of us any too rational either) see that they're but sales tools for butressing the dominance of some superstitions profitable to the priests; not to the culture. Rational discussion is neigh impossible anywhere near a church: of any denomination. Ah: so those who see the fraud flock to universities.
Universities currently pretend that they are a doorway to truth: they pretend that they're honestly trying even if they don't yet claim infallibility.
Ivan Illich showed that schools weren't what they seemed. A few people, very few, actually got the point. So how come no one has allowed my extension of his points, extending "school" to include universities? I say that universities are for the most part merely secular churches: sales tools for maintaining the epistemological errors of our top-down controlled, big-capital-controlled marketplace culture.
Rational discussion is neigh impossible anywhere near a university.
(Boy! And if you think the university is bad, try dealing with the public! with the media!! with the government!!!
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