The Loss of the University

University places a huge premium on self transcendence as we've seen. This is the legacy of the axial revolution, he says. In order to take this knowledge and give it existential transformative relevance to individual lives, the university has to be attached to something else that transforms people's lives. And so what happens is that these institutions are being shut down. So you do not know where to go for wisdom. We have sapiential obsolescence of our knowledge. It is becoming increasingly difficult right now for us as a culture to distinguish politics from knowledge. From willful assertion of things that we must simply accept because of an arbitrary will wielding power.