when i went through my bro's economics text book i thought whats this crap i'm reading non of this is going to work in real life
So I recognized that from the U/C’s vantage point, a “free market” in ideas was one where students were only free to choose the ideology that the U/C supported. Their teaching was like the Terminator. You can’t reason with it. It’s just there to kill the opposition.
Chase decided to merge the Economic Research department (where I worked) into "Public Relations and Publications" under John Wilson. As it adopted Chicago School economics, it was used only for rhetoric, not for actual internal bank decisions. The same thing happened at Citibank. Wall Street came to use Chicago monetarism only as lobbying rhetoric, not as real analysis.
One friend of mine who became a sociology instructor at Chicago told me that he began one class trying to explain whether there was such a thing as an ideology of the vested interests might be. "That's what we're here to learn," a student replied.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
So I recognized that from the U/C’s vantage point, a “free market” in ideas was one where students were only free to choose the ideology that the U/C supported. Their teaching was like the Terminator. You can’t reason with it. It’s just there to kill the opposition.
Chase decided to merge the Economic Research department (where I worked) into "Public Relations and Publications" under John Wilson. As it adopted Chicago School economics, it was used only for rhetoric, not for actual internal bank decisions. The same thing happened at Citibank. Wall Street came to use Chicago monetarism only as lobbying rhetoric, not as real analysis.
One friend of mine who became a sociology instructor at Chicago told me that he began one class trying to explain whether there was such a thing as an ideology of the vested interests might be. "That's what we're here to learn," a student replied.
isn't ideology a vested interest by itself? being an idea that is about moving in a specific direction? whoever starts it is actually trying to move others in a single direction?
...Many of you come to these lectures because you are intellectually frustrated, and you want to be exposed again to my insistent demands that you think about things.
For example, we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression...
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:...Many of you come to these lectures because you are intellectually frustrated, and you want to be exposed again to my insistent demands that you think about things.
For example, we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression...
eh? thats doesn't answer my question? that sounds more like someone who has a different view. but i do agree ideolodies are pretty much religious in a way
You can hold on to ideologies to religious extents. They're simply beliefs. They can be religious, emotional, or intellectual. In the end, an ideology is just a technical word for a set of ideas.
When you try to promote your own ideology, in this context, whether protectionism is good or not, then its called propaganda. You're making an organised (it is assumed) effort to promote your belief that protectionism is [fill in the blanks].
Unfortunately, some people, whether intentionally or not, like to call something "propaganda" in order to give it a negative slur.