Thursday, February 27, 2020

Get on with it, already.

An entertaining fisk of the education establishment. From The New York Times States The Obvious: A Literacy Fisk by Lori Janeski. The arguments are familiar as is the critique of the education establishment. A bunch of ideological shills protecting their sinecures while emoting over the fate of others. And for whom Loranksi has little time or sympathy.

She is loaded for bear from the very start. The NYT in italic and Loranski in bold.
On a bright July morning in a windowless conference room in a Manhattan bookstore, several dozen elementary school teachers were learning how to create worksheets that would help children learn to write.

I thought this was an article for a respectable (sort of) news organization, not a fluffy fanfic piece. Get on with it, already.
The NYT goes downhill from there and Loranski battles uphill, taking position after position. Every sycophantic postmodernist critical theory indulgence is on display and catered to by the NYT "writer." Every downy dreamy desire that the world should be idyllically different than it is.

And all in prose which shows no art, no empirical evidence, and no logic. Not even artful rhetoric. It is tiresome bilge which Loranski keeps spraying with classical disinfectant.

But still the NYT unicorn view of the world and the NYT fantasy writing dominates and pragmatic creation and art struggles.

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