So what I'm getting from your quote here, is the CIA pumped a whole lot of money into all sorts of cultural spheres to fight a "cultural Cold War", which somehow makes everyone receiving any of that money (most likely without them knowing it was CIA money) a CIA, did I get that right?
No you did not get that right, I have repeatedly said I don't think Derrida or most of the French philosophers were conscious of it, but that doesn't mean there isn't a filter created by the CIA intervention in academia, and the people who get thru that filter are people who say and teach ideas compatible with the status quo, ideas which not surprisedly tend to be highly critical of Marxism and revolutionary politics
Well, "academia in general is highly critical of Marxism and revolutionary politics because of CIA intervention creating an environment where that flourished" is a statement that is both more insightful and less needlessly hostile towards a specific philosopher, so why didn't you just say that from the start? And how is Derrida of all people somehow the example you chose to pick for this, I don't get it. Like, if you don't wanna read him, just don't read him, what are these "DAE this one thinker is entirely dismissable without reading" posts cropping up here every so often
So what I'm getting from your quote here, is the CIA pumped a whole lot of money into all sorts of cultural spheres to fight a "cultural Cold War", which somehow makes everyone receiving any of that money (most likely without them knowing it was CIA money) a CIA, did I get that right?
No you did not get that right, I have repeatedly said I don't think Derrida or most of the French philosophers were conscious of it, but that doesn't mean there isn't a filter created by the CIA intervention in academia, and the people who get thru that filter are people who say and teach ideas compatible with the status quo, ideas which not surprisedly tend to be highly critical of Marxism and revolutionary politics
Well, "academia in general is highly critical of Marxism and revolutionary politics because of CIA intervention creating an environment where that flourished" is a statement that is both more insightful and less needlessly hostile towards a specific philosopher, so why didn't you just say that from the start? And how is Derrida of all people somehow the example you chose to pick for this, I don't get it. Like, if you don't wanna read him, just don't read him, what are these "DAE this one thinker is entirely dismissable without reading" posts cropping up here every so often