Meanwhile my ecology professor is literally teaching that survival of the fittest is about genetic superiority and that evolution is about working towards that ‘goal’. This is incorrect and bad science that is rooted in right-wing ideology that was disproven decades ago.
This is not what survival of the fittest means by the way. There is no such thing as a genetically superior being, as ‘fitness’ is totally subjective, as well as dependent on your environment. A lifeform that reproduces well in the ocean will still die if you put in the vacuum of space, no matter how ‘fit’ it was for ocean life. Not to mention the idea that nature has some sort of conscious goal is anthropomorthising a concept and again, bad science.
I really want to do something about this, but I feel like complaining will get me failed or known as a shit stirrer.
I fucking hate capitalist education.
On the plus side, our next lecture is on mutualism
that’s funny… i’m fairly certain in the 5 years i was in college there wasn’t a single goddamned professor on campus that knew anything about Marx, including my sociology professor who constantly railed on the state of the US and had then had us read Weber as if protestantism explained it all.
college was the most disillusioning thing ever. i truly thought it was where you go to learn real true things that you just won’t find outside of that setting, but it was just more horseshit shoveled by clueless gluttons who just want tenure.
I had one bold teacher that dared to teach Marxist analysis of literature as part of the coursework. Even saying the fucking name got some very brave trust fund kids clicking their tongues and other catty reactions, but she assured the class that it’s just about finding the class relations (and almost inevitably, struggles) in any given piece of literature. Still made them pissy and petulant, especially the petite bourgeoisie faildaughters that just wanted to re-read Pride and Prejudice, again, and submit the same paper about it to a new teacher. Again.
No need to call out the entire English department like that lmao
The consequence of privatisation of education.
There’s a reason the west is falling behind.
I got to read Marx’s Capital over a period of two courses and that wasn’t even officially the subject matter Lmao.
But most of my courses seemed to be taught by libs.