My posts have
their own existence apart from me. When the ideas leave my head, and find their
own life on the internet, who I am ceases to matter.
But they are still from and of you, even if they take on an independent life after they leave you. Your thoughts will be different from any other person's, because you are different from any other person.
But given what I quoted you as saying above, I assume that you believe that the controversy over dead white males is totally wrong, that attempts to "balance" curricula to include minority and womens "voices" is wrong, and that any attempt to contemplate whether a work is by a Western or Eastern author is wrong, and that only the works matter, independent of their authorship and the nature or character of the author.
Correct?
Indeed, except for copyright protections where they occur, we should not even attach authorship to any works. We should just have works, since once they leave the author's pen (or quill or chisel or whatever) they have no more connectedness to the author.
It would be interesting to see a university program run along those lines. |
