Excellence

Cameron Neylon, in a chapter on how research excellence is a neo-colonial agenda, states that the “concept of ‘excellence’ is an empty rhetorical construct with no common meaning and no value. In fact, it is deeply damaging to the production of research with relevance and importance to actual policy goals.”  I have identified nation, identity, truth, family, and God as “concepts or notions” that have been deconstructed or “decentered” by the Left. “Excellence” in education is here another concept that is being deconstructed and even more strongly affects the future of the West, East, North, or South.  When we come to our future we will notice that things are falling apart at the seams. This will be decried as the result of latent neo-colonial power, but it actually will demonstrate the lack of incentive and structure needed to prevent the erosion of education.

Neylon goes on to undermine use of peer review that has been the staple of research, validity and reliability, for decades, stating that it is directly related to the propagation of colonial ideals, the “deployment of research excellence as a rhetorical tactic to defend autonomy has many parallels with the development of peer review 40 years earlier.”  This language about autonomy is used often by the Left and has proven to be affective in making changes once autonomy is shown to be a seed of success in capitalism.  This goes to the very core of the problem, i.e. there is a Marxist agenda behind the vanguard of postcolonial thought.  If these statements were not accurate, against excellence and autonomy, then the protests backed by Marxists would have failed.  These protests have worked in the past to stymie “progress” a much maligned concept in recent times and during the Marxist and communist revolutions.  If you have not noticed, these forces are taking over the world.  

It is time that, prior to being decapitated, the church must come out of its’ Babylon of modern times and stand against the powers of the air, the real evil in the world. “Colonial” is not a new term used for battering the West; it was resurrected in the 1960’s and is being used now in the 21st century to destroy the embattled notions of excellence and autonomy.  Oh, and notice the relationship between policy goals and research excellence as stated by Neylon, in the first quote. 

Comments

Anonymous said…
One wonders if Professor Neylon takes issue with other superlatives, or the notion of superlative itself. Surely, "this is better than that" has little to do with colonialism; but is simply a matter of actual function. This sort of argument seems to be something on the order of post-modernist click-bait wherein arbirtary definitions are applied to concepts without the actuality of their persistent functionality.
1 October 2022 at 07:58
WE WILL NOT CAVE said…
I see you have come to a very appropriate conclusion. The notion of superlative joins the host of destroyed words. Neylon argues against excellence because it is a Western notion. How pitiful are the words "'excellence’ is an empty rhetorical construct with no common meaning and no value" Excellence is not an empty word, and may carry with it some Western connotations, but this is not a measure of some evil. Neylon need only have multiple of they's generations spend lives in the West, then the tables would be turned. Neylon probably, like most liberals, lives a quite comfortable life. (please note the absurdity of the strange pronouns usage here).

Notice, for sure, the reference to policy making. It is obvious that there is no hiding the agenda of people like Neylon. This has been the point of much of what I have written in these short but intense blogs. I hope everyone who visits sees that and can hang their hat on it as a problem.
1 October 2022 at 14:23
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