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I have an upcoming article that briefly touches on the watering down of college courses with pop culture to appeal to younger ‘generations’ as a Marxist tactic.
And, lo and behold.
It’s not often that we talk about SpongeBob SquarePants in this newsletter, but maybe that should change.
Alongside Franz Kafka’s 1915 oeuvre Metamorphosis, Ling Ma’s 2018 post-apocalyptic novel Severance, and a long list of writings by economists, philosophers and other influential theorists, the cartoon’s 2006 episode “Best Day Ever” is on the syllabus of a class at Emory University, where students examine the shackles of work in culture and society — and consider a future without them.
“How does SpongeBob’s best day ever start?” asked Irving Goh, the comparative literature professor teaching the twice-weekly seminar. “It begins actually with SpongeBob going to [The] Krusty Krab to begin work as a fry cook. And I’m thinking: What? Is that how a best day ever should begin?”
Bloomberg doesn’t use the “M” word because when you’re smuggling in an ideology, you’re supposed to hide it, but it won’t surprise you too much to learn that behind the denunciation of work is a familiar bearded fellow.
From the Emory U site.
Goh’s course examines cultural icons from SpongeBob SquarePants and Rihanna (the course’s title is drawn from her 2016 hit song, Work) to Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, and Marx and how they relate to the concept and culture of work.
The three obvious things about Marxists is that they share their founder’s knack for destructiveness, contempt for the public and obsessive need to turn everything into a political theory.
Well this one takes the biscuit. Just when I thought the Zombie Generation was averaging out in the moron range, I find they operating at the mental age of three.
Marx was far worst then Hitler and Mao was a Far worse in Mass Murder by far the Commies were worst then the Nazis
“Metamorphosis” was genius, along with “The Trial”. Actually describes real life, better than non-fiction can.
Kafka’s “The Castle” was made into a movie. It portrayed bureaucracy so effectively that it victimized me into boredom.
Thanks! I haven’t read “The Castle”. I went looking at Kafka titles earlier today, wondering if I could face another of his books, now that I’ve internalized and absorbed Metamorphosis and The Trial and recovered from the shock. But no, I don’t feel I’m ready yet 🙂
Maybe they are simply getting their students ready for the rapidly approaching day when no one except tech freaks needs to work, and that would be to perfect the AI systems and robotic worker bees that will provide them with all their needs and wants, while the kids will be — doing what? ‘Attacking The Machine’?
I first learned about Karl Marx and Marxism in a college Philosophy class. I was still a young skull full of mush so it took me a few years ti finally conclude that Reagan was right.
Reagan posited the notion that the difference between a communist and an anti-communist is that a communist is someone who reads Karl Marx whereas an anti-communist is some who understands Karl Marx.
EXCELLENT! I’m stealing that Reagan line. Thank you.
‘Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.’ Thomas Sowell
Plankton and his Chum Bucket should have a central place in the narrative being that Plankton’s envy makes him a natural Marxist. The Chum Bucket already has the Soviet Brutalist architecture. Communism would be an excellent scheme to weasel away the secret recipe, although genocide and the other tools for installing it may may have to be whitewashed.