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    David Maddison

    Satire.

    Or is it?

    Is Australia even more “progressive” (regressive) than Canada?

    People are noticing Australia’s extreme wokeness.

    Short cartoon.

    https://x.com/i/status/2065072762595721727

    Housing. Immigration. Hate speech. 🇨🇦🇦🇺

    Canada and Australia compete to be the most progressive country on Earth.

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    David Maddison

    The Left destroy everything that is good.

    In the following video, this YouTuber describes who attempts to fulfill her life-long ambition to study English Literature at Columbia University, which back in the day had a prestigious reputation for studies in that field. Now the department is infested with communists and its impossible to interpret any work of literature without imposing some inappropriate angle on the work under study.

    Very interesting comments by the YouTuber.

    (If you are an Australian under 16 and interested im literature get an adult to sign you in as you can’t have a YouTube account under Australian censorship laws.)

    https://youtu.be/QSTW1p05dn0

    I went to Columbia University expecting to spend four years immersed in Shakespeare, Homer, Dostoyevsky, modernist poetry, and the great humanistic tradition of literature.

    Instead, I found an English department increasingly dominated by literary theory, ideological activism, and political interpretation. The study of beauty, aesthetics, and human nature had largely been replaced by endless discussions of power, oppression, and identity.

    Today, I discuss why I left academia, how English departments replaced literature with theory, the rise of Edward Said, what happened to the humanities, and why literature still matters.

    I know I’m not alone in approaching the study of literature in this unique way. In returning to aesthetics and beauty, we can do our part in saving literature and restoring it to its rightful place in the humanistic tradition. Because after all, literature is our best bet for understanding not only the world around us but our own selves.

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