Like most ideas, this is easier said than done. Of course, there are materialistic considerations, i.e., funding and student recruitment, etc., which, upon examination, are minor compared to the second issue: academic thought. With a deep examination of how we arrived here, one finds the problem is much more severe than just allowing non-post-modern thinkers, e.g., an alt-academy. Instead, the arc of the past 500 years leads only here; it is directional and gravitational. Once one moves in this direction, one can only end here.
Though most will argue that the issues go back, at best, 50 years, this is not the case, and the modern academy is merely the culmination of centuries of thought, which has repressed specific thoughts by the sword. Which thoughts precisely? It is Scholastic and Aristotelean. Though this may be thought crazy, those most likely to advance these positions, i.e., Catholics, could not be professors at Oxford or Cambridge until 1871. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the rest of the American flagship institutions finally allowed entry in the 1930s. Do you not think this influenced the direction of modern thought? In other countries, the Jesuits, the Catholic intellectuals in that era, were expelled and disbanded during the critical 'enlightenment' period.
As a result, we have Kant's ironic dogma against dogmatism, which leads directly to the dogmatic bigotry we are now experiencing. Nietzsche correctly said the entire modern intellectual movement was against Christianity, which he properly understood as Catholic Christianity.
What are the results? First is a fierce hatred of 'natural law' seen in the modern gender dysphoria movements. Then one gets a materialist thought process that sees only oppressor and oppressed and liberation from economic tyranny as nirvana. Finally, one gets a deification of the environment: "thus spoke Zarathustra."
The only way to do an alt-academy is to reject the modern intellectual's fundamental religious principles and myths, returning to a different way of thought. This rejection, however, requires a religious conversion away from materialistic rationalism, which makes even my colleagues at Catholic institutions scoff.
Like most ideas, this is easier said than done. Of course, there are materialistic considerations, i.e., funding and student recruitment, etc., which, upon examination, are minor compared to the second issue: academic thought. With a deep examination of how we arrived here, one finds the problem is much more severe than just allowing non-post-modern thinkers, e.g., an alt-academy. Instead, the arc of the past 500 years leads only here; it is directional and gravitational. Once one moves in this direction, one can only end here.
Though most will argue that the issues go back, at best, 50 years, this is not the case, and the modern academy is merely the culmination of centuries of thought, which has repressed specific thoughts by the sword. Which thoughts precisely? It is Scholastic and Aristotelean. Though this may be thought crazy, those most likely to advance these positions, i.e., Catholics, could not be professors at Oxford or Cambridge until 1871. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the rest of the American flagship institutions finally allowed entry in the 1930s. Do you not think this influenced the direction of modern thought? In other countries, the Jesuits, the Catholic intellectuals in that era, were expelled and disbanded during the critical 'enlightenment' period.
As a result, we have Kant's ironic dogma against dogmatism, which leads directly to the dogmatic bigotry we are now experiencing. Nietzsche correctly said the entire modern intellectual movement was against Christianity, which he properly understood as Catholic Christianity.
What are the results? First is a fierce hatred of 'natural law' seen in the modern gender dysphoria movements. Then one gets a materialist thought process that sees only oppressor and oppressed and liberation from economic tyranny as nirvana. Finally, one gets a deification of the environment: "thus spoke Zarathustra."
The only way to do an alt-academy is to reject the modern intellectual's fundamental religious principles and myths, returning to a different way of thought. This rejection, however, requires a religious conversion away from materialistic rationalism, which makes even my colleagues at Catholic institutions scoff.