Bullshit Studies and Leftist "Hegemony" in Academia: "Monster Studies"

   'Hegemony' is just one of the perfectly good words that the left has ruined. So I can't even hear myself think it without scare quotes anymore...

   There's nothing intrinsically wrong with stuff like "monster studies." Hell, I'm sure there are some interesting things to be said about it...though...TBF...the kind of things you could whip up in five minutes of drunken bullshitting...

   Anyhoo...

   I do really think there's no intrinsic problem. Hell, why not have a little fun in academia now and then?

   Well, here are the main problems, according to me:

[1]  Instead of being an occasional thing, some academicians make it their major thing.

[2]  This kind of shit is way, way too common--that is, this is only one variety of froofy bullshit that's afoot in the academy. The shit is just everywhere.

[3]  The intellectual standards associated with such shit are inevitably extremely low...

...in part because:

[4]  Such stuff is always even more corrupted by leftist thought than most stuff in the humanities and adjacent areas

though, TBF:

[A] These people would be doing politicized bullshit anyway...so I guess it's better to fuck up "monster studies" etc. than English literature...

I considered writing a little paper about H.P. Lovecraft and the Matrix a few years ago, in which I tried giving the idea of the Necronomicon as red (or black) pill a run for its money...mostly just for fun...but also because I think it's kinda right. Though, admittedly: total fluff. So I mean it when I say that I think screwing around like this every couple of years is fine. In principle.

But in practice...well...see [1]-[4] (above).