We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but … - Laura Penny

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We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but adolescents. This is a problem, because we are the world's most heavily armed teenagers.

Laura Penny

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About Laura Penny

Laura Penny (born 1975) was born in Nova Scotia and currently teaches English at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York. Ms. Penny has worked as a bookstore clerk, a student activist, a union organizer, and a university instructor.

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Who teh heLL R u 2 tELL me what 2 reed or how 2 spel?

The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.

When we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old fashioned phrase from Kant.

We are not the adults in the sense that Kant intended, but adolescents. This is a problem, because we are the world's most heavily armed teenagers. - Laura Penny

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