Sublime

Nietzsche's public audience was likely to be sympathetic to one of the main stands he took in his lectures. If we reduce the value of higher education to the material return on our financial investment, we will impoverish CC our culture and diminish ourselves.

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

as originally pointed out by the German philosopher Walter Benjamin in his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” is that by removing something from its original context or setting, we kill the sense of awe that we might attach to its uniqueness. Great works of art were once intrinsically a part of their settings.

Das grausame Versprechen der Meritokratie

Und eine erste Leitthese, die ich in diesem Essay entfalten möchte, lautet, dass für spätmoderne Subjekte die Welt schlechterdings zum Aggressionspunkt geworden ist.3 Alles, was erscheint, muss gewusst, beherrscht, erobert, nutzbar gemacht werden.

the bias of a medium sits heavy, felt but unseen, over a culture—I