Excellent post. Thank you for sharing this. Consider those extremes, which you reflect so well in your succinct paragraph: "Durkheim identified the ways in which extreme integration and extreme regulation were damaging to individuals and subgroups. Andreessen’s attacks on universities suggests a desire to move the social currents toward that level of extreme conformity." Do you believe that a move toward extremes simply reflects ignorance? (Thus, the problem could be repaired by education.)
Excellent post. Thank you for sharing this. Consider those extremes, which you reflect so well in your succinct paragraph: "Durkheim identified the ways in which extreme integration and extreme regulation were damaging to individuals and subgroups. Andreessen’s attacks on universities suggests a desire to move the social currents toward that level of extreme conformity." Do you believe that a move toward extremes simply reflects ignorance? (Thus, the problem could be repaired by education.)
No. The move toward conformity and control is about fear and power.