Comments on: What good are the arts? http://adrianmonck.com/2008/12/good-arts/ a blog about news and stuff Thu, 10 May 2012 16:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Julian http://adrianmonck.com/2008/12/good-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-1711 Julian Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:09:36 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=2264#comment-1711 I can smell a historian, even online. I can smell a historian, even online.

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/12/good-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-1710 Adrian Monck Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:09:29 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=2264#comment-1710 As a historian, I'm afraid I agree. As a historian, I’m afraid I agree.

]]> By: Julian http://adrianmonck.com/2008/12/good-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-1709 Julian Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:15:18 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=2264#comment-1709 I agree that people with arts degrees have little of interest to say about the problems of the 21st century. History seems to me a particularly fatuous discipline. But seriously - I'm constantly amazed at the moral, political, historical and philosophical naivety of science journalists. I wouldn't want them deciding anything that touched me very closely. I agree that people with arts degrees have little of interest to say about the problems of the 21st century. History seems to me a particularly fatuous discipline.

But seriously — I’m constantly amazed at the moral, political, historical and philosophical naivety of science journalists. I wouldn’t want them deciding anything that touched me very closely.

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