Stop, look, listen: the university’s role in counterterrorism

What do universities generally do more -- keep us in touch with our humanities, or keep us quite contrarily enrolled in the mythology of materialism? The cult of materialism runs on all the inducements of corporate marketing, the beckoning of more, more profits, and all the rest we can see the big boys doing in "The Big Short." If in universities we had people writing and talking with constant reference to various humanities -- human situations in novels, films, poems, songs, etc. -- I'd feel safe, or a bit safer, from the crushing, crass engines of materialism. But intellectuals go to universities to shed themselves of any skills or inclination to keep in touch with humanity or the humanities. Look at Keiran Hardy here for instance. Wonks love to talk like institutions, or in institution-speak. How do those millions of Muslims feel who have been uprooted by various forms of western exploitation? Consumerism market exploitation or support-the-local-dictator exploitation? How do they feel in their alienated ghettoes of Europe? In the giant megalopolises of Africa and Asia where the millions have had to migrate for having been forced out of traditional cultures by western industrial ag, for instance, which has its western subsidies exactly to underprice and kill all traditional cultures? Universities' role in the new sweeps of terrorism? Please, let's look first at the routine depersonalizing of all in corporate academe so we never think to look at the human, or at the humanities, and all just carry on, as does our Keiran Hardy, all speaking the language of materialism only.