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Clearly there's some gathering global anxiety within the academy and it's mainly around the difficulty of getting broader social recognition for the two convictions about humanities that are motivating these discussions.
Yet this particular low-grade comment about humanities students struck a chord for someone who responded with nasty emails accusing me of fueling anti-intellectualism.
In January 2012, I wrote a column that made a little joke about humanities Ph.D. students learning important skills such as how to put sheets on their mothers' basement couches.
Ignore the cracks about humanities majors flipping hamburgers after graduation.
But for the past thirteen years, I've been thinking about humanities and humor--that might help us create--a better future--for human and nonhuman life.
I think there's good reason to be concerned about Humanities just because Humanities are traditionally dwelled in schools and universities and we're changing the way we think about ways people need to learn or what we think they need to learn, and what needs to be a craft that needs to be learned, so... [there's the thought:] why waste time on Shakespeare or Mark Twain for that matter.
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What greater motivation could there possibly be to start caring passionately about humanity?
I learned something about humanity, human nature and society, and about myself.
The world has watched, yet again, as our everything human about humanity was allowed to disappear.
More about humanity and human beings.
What is distinctive about humanity such that humans are thought to have moral status and non-humans do not?
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