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- Embed this notice@lunaticlucidity @nyx not to be conspiratorial, but to show that these frameworks are counterproductive, it's not enough to just critique them (side note: the overemphasis on "critique" in intellectual discourse is a major part of this very problem). It's necessary to contextualize what exactly academia functions for in society.
Governments, corporations, billionaires, and most notably, intelligence agencies, have all long manipulated academia to further their interests. The CIA, for example, has used academic institutions as fronts, funded grants, placed their own people into faculty and staff, etc. Relevant here, sociology is especially noteworthy. Long history of the sociology programs and sociologists who developed these frameworks either receiving funding or being straight up Agency plants. The biggest project of this sort in the 20th century was the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Virtually every prominent intellectual was influenced in some way by the CCF. The CCF ended* in 1966 when the New York Times revealed that the CIA was behind it. But the same activities of front organizations, plants, funding, and other overt and covert methods still remain common practice.
We have to show people that they've been duped, so that they can break out of the frameworks confining their perspective, and start thinking for themselves.