Of Roberto Pecchioli

Source: Heretically
We know well the level of manipulation reached by contemporary culture and communication, dominated by a few giants, property of the planetary economic and financial oligarchy. Likewise, we have become convinced of the ideological falsification of the so-called human sciences, at the service of an anthropology interested in creating the new man, the fluid and generally transgender consumer. It is clear that many disciplines that deal with sensitive topics such as gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, racial identities are the terrain of authentic evildoers who have occupied the academic level doing political activism, ideology, certainly not culture and much less science.
Nonetheless, reality surpasses fantasy; one is left speechless when reading the incredible background of an article published in the "prestigious" American magazine Gender, Place and Culture. These are dog parks, apparently innocent places where man's best friend can run around safe and happy, play and have fun. According to a study signed by Dr. Helen Wilson of a mysterious Portland Ungendering Initiative, the reality is much more sinister. Dog parks, he claims, they are places completely pervaded by an oppressive and heteropatriarchal culture aimed at violating nature, where innocent animals are oppressed as a direct reflection of sexist violence, structural in our society.
We're not making anything up. The article appeared in a pompous scientific journal, among the most important and cited in the field of gender studies (gender), after going through a “scientific” review process. The publishers considered it an important work, worthy of appearing in the special issues dedicated to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication.
It's about, but, of a fake, a kind of fake script, or better, an operation to unmask the miserable moral level, cultural and scientific of some self-styled scholars. Helen Wilson doesn't exist, and that's the first good news. It doesn't even exist, Obviously, the preliminary study carried out to write the article, pride of postmodern scientific literature. The text is the collective work of three academics, an expert in medieval religious literature, a mathematician and a philosopher, tired of seeing that the human sciences departments of American universities are filled with people who write nonsense without rhyme or reason. Previously, they had created another essay, regularly published, which he recommended, in order to reduce homophobia and transphobia, the use of anal vibrators by heterosexual males.
The three's project seems to be a re-edition of the Sokal scandal of the late 20th century. Alan Sokal, physics professor, he sent a surreal article full of absurdity to the magazine Social Text and managed to publish it. The title was “Border Transgression: towards a transformative hermeneutics on quantum gravity”. A mocking slap in the face of the mandarins of high culture which however failed to undermine the authority of those who had welcomed it as a serious work of genius. About that, we recommend getting rid of the feelings of inadequacy or invincible ignorance that arise when reading certain art criticisms or listening to many cryptic speeches by intellectuals. Often there is nothing to understand. This is presumptuous nonsense, not infrequently of tariff-based services in the interest of clients with economic or political purposes. It is enough to remember the enthusiasm of certain American circles, in an anti-Soviet key, for abstract expressionism, contrasted as a very high form of art with socialist realism.
The so-called human sciences are no exception and the three professors kept in the shadows got to work, producing twenty articles, pure logorrhea of ​​postmodern radicalism, identity studies, sexuality, of gender, sent to the most influential publications in each discipline addressed. Each essay involved only a few days of scientific work, a superficial smattering of the literature they sought to imitate. The result was brilliant, the acceptance and publication of seven articles, the request for a few revisions for seven others. Only six rejected before the trio hiding behind the pseudonym Helen Wilson made the hoax public (let's call it that).
It is worth reporting some published "pearls" to realize the breadth of the underlying cultural and ethical problem. In addition to advocating the use of anal vibrators, in another posting they stated that “all criticisms of social justice articles are immoral and based on privilege.”. A thoughtful rant about divorce was downloaded from a poetry site for teenagers. The masterpiece is the following song: “Our fight is my fight; solidarity feminism as an intersectional response to neoliberal and elective feminism", a pro controversy- gender was a periphrasis from the chapter 12 di My fight. Hitler politically and sexually correct…
Another element clarifies the level of the so-called new culture, and it is the circumstance that the three jokers were able to write dozens of articles intended for the judgment of academics with just a few days of preparatory study. It is all too obvious that there is no serious scientific discipline in which one can pass as an expert in the eyes of "colleagues" in this way.. This is the culture of “intellectuals by my bootstraps”(Bettino Craxi). There would be no need to say it, such is the arrogance of that academic world, but the reaction was nothing short of grotesque, oscillating between angry indignation against those who had cheated them and the ridiculous proclamation of the good functioning of the system that revealed the frauds. Some have recovered a certain intellectual honesty, and they went on the attack against academic progressivism which dedicates itself to talking about wrongs and discrimination by passing them off as scientific discoveries.
The real drama is the decadence to very low levels of important parts of American and European education and culture. The request to clean up the universities went unheeded for thirty years, despite the alarm of an intellectual who was not at all extremist, Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind.
The facts demonstrate that a sector of the social sciences – once we would have said the spiritual sciences, if there were no heavy inroads into biology and medicine – he dedicates himself, throughout the West, to investigate crucial issues based on articles and conferences whose sole purpose is to confirm their ideological agenda. If heteropatriarchy is in fashion, I'll write about that, and all my studies will be about whether it is everywhere and explains everything, without regard to empirical evidence, internal coherence and reality itself. Entire disciplines are thus colonized, the centers of teaching and power occupied by people engaged in ideological political activism and certainly not in research, culture and science, with incalculable damage to common knowledge.
Intellectual rigor collapses, the epistemological validity of many disciplines becomes scarce or non-existent. If we do not intervene, it is certainly not in compliance with the freedom of research, but because many blunders and falsehoods come from the Vulcan workshop of the oligarchies of power, committed to the deconstruction of man, to be reconditioned and recreated as a desiring animal, fluent, devoid of identity, dispossessed of critical thinking, lonely raft adrift in a sea poisoned by the false ideas of a dismaying postmodernity.
They warn us against counterfeiting brands and commercial products for their own interests, provide very harsh penalties for those who sell counterfeit bags and clothing. It's time to unmask, as the three American teachers did with their mockery essays, the knitters of culture, fake innovators, authentic falsifiers of science that has turned into ideology, saints of knowledge bent to the interests of the few, well-fed vucumbera of a counterfeit culture, sold at a high price to generations defrauded of the most expensive value, the truth. Continued abuse of popular credulity.