Mark Mason 18 November 2011 Jeff, This is a
simple thank you for writing the book, Disciplined Minds. When I completed my doctoral work in
paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, I was
conflicted. I was proud of the hard work,
but I was confused because something was seriously wrong with academia. It took me some years to clean the foggy
windows of my mind. Your book adds
immeasurably to the understanding of the function of the educated class. I am
preparing a talk to be given at law schools in the Philippines. I prefer Facebook to academia and the
published "scholarly" journals.
I have come full circle and your book and thinking is like some kind
of touchstone crystallizing decades of confusion. The
objective of state-sponsored education is to produce competent, but invisible
technocrats capable of the freest kind of inquiry into the details of
subatomic physics, and the fullest investigation of deep evolutionary history
of humans, but we are not permitted to ask, what is the just society. We are not permitted to ask, Who am
I? Your book asks that taboo
question, Who am I. The response to
your book, as you know, the punishment you received is concrete evidence that
the thesis of your book is correct. I am
available to give my talk in the US, but I don't think anyone wants to hear
it. No one is interested. Regards, Mark Mason
PhD http://www.masonphd.net |