So I was trying to watch a politics and morals class from Yale university online today, I have been considering a masters in law and politics, thought this would give me an idea.
The lecturer started the echimann problem, another case study about the holocust, reading half of the assigned reading I got bored, and watched the class. His whole point was that some countries might do illegal things yet they might be legitimate. Hooray to to the death of neutral education, and such a grand intro to politics. His other point was that criminals are normal people like us. I am not entering the idea of how double sided politicians are which is something I deeply despise.
The idea that killed me is the obvious lack of neutrality in all the online courses I am taking from US universities. A while ago while reading a book on the history of economics the writer said that one of the most important factors for the rise of neoliberism is that it was taught to students in universities. They teach you history economics and law just as they are. And seeing that you have no prior knowledge of the subject how on earth are you going to develop a different point of view. This is what is Happening with worldwide high education, especially in the field of humanities, if you get a masters in philosophy you can only find a good education in the university that would only teach u western philosophy. First world countries offer education to the world but at a very high prize, for example in another online course the only arguments about the paradoxes of war in one subject are only about World War I and II even though the course’s title is general. 
Education and intellectuality around the world are being controlled by first world scholars that show you only the western point of view, and the world only accepts you with that education. I don’t want to be a prisoner of western thought and philosophy and my dilemma rests at that exact point. The Mexican Ocatavio Paz said ‘we (The third world) never had a Kant, a Voltaire, a Diderot, or a hume’ the 21 century was imposed on the third world when it was not ready for it, coming from a society that never had the chance to grow, the least one can do is to never forget that every word said is up for critical arguments. Learn from them but never be them. Cheers to the beautiful nations of the third world.

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