Originally Posted by
Shiva Kaul
No, the blame doesn’t lie with professors, who you allege are “indoctrinating” students. That is too convenient. (And if you haven’t been keeping up, “indoctrination” is not a scare word around these parts.)
The problem is that people have become insects - so engrossed with their minor positions in life, that they cannot verify any part of their inputs, nor can they recognize their effect on society via unintended consequences. This is why we have ER docs who hastily shove their COVID-19 back into susceptible populations, police who “just follow orders”, PhD computer scientists who are stridently confident about their analyses conducted on random interweb CSVs, and so many busy professionals who never read beyond the title and abstract, but aren’t too busy to have an opinion.
Are your poor kids being “indoctrinated” by their professors? Good. The ability to learn and act in the presence of noise and manipulation is now an invaluable skill.