GOING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS BY UNCLE LEN, CAPITALISED
YES, THIS IS HOW MOST CRAZY PEOPLE WRITE, ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT? WELL, UNIVERSITIES SURE HAVE:
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/frighten-university-students-all-caps/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1046977/university-lecturers-not-to-use-cap-letters-student-failure
“Staff at Leeds Trinity's school of journalism have also been told to "write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions". Some blasted the move as "more academic mollycoddling" of the snowflake generation. An "enhancing student understanding, engagement and achievement" memo lists dos and don'ts - with "do" and "don't" among words frowned upon. Generally, avoid using capital letters for emphasis and "the overuse of 'do', and, especially, 'DON'T'."
Students seem to be as mentally sensitive as me, and look where I have ended up, virtually human garbage. But, being protected from ideas that one does not like really is bad for mental health – trust me on this one:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
“There’s a saying common in education circles: Don’t teach students what to think; teach them how to think. The idea goes back at least as far as Socrates. Today, what we call the Socratic method is a way of teaching that fosters critical thinking, in part by encouraging students to question their own unexamined beliefs, as well as the received wisdom of those around them. Such questioning sometimes leads to discomfort, and even to anger, on the way to understanding. But vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way. It prepares them poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong. The harm may be more immediate, too. A campus culture devoted to policing speech and punishing speakers is likely to engender patterns of thought that are surprisingly similar to those long identified by cognitive behavioral therapists as causes of depression and anxiety. The new protectiveness may be teaching students to think pathologically.”
Thinking pathologically? That is the stuff that James writes about, the serious guy here. Me, I am still thinking about how capital letters are destroying the minds of liberal snowflakes. Could that be the secret weapon that we have been looking for in this cultural war? The one ring to rule them all? MAYBE!
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