The situation has become sufficiently worrying that the new leader of the Canadian Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer , made the restoration of freedom of expression in universities one of the top three priorities of his program. In an e-mail sent to the sympathizers of his party in the last days, the leader of the official opposition in the House of Commons wrote: ” Once elected I will suspend federal grants to universities that will not respect the diversity of opinions . We believe that universities should be a place for teaching – a place where young adults can learn to think for themselves, by offering them other ideas and a diversity of opinions. ”
Τhe cult of diversity is also accompanied by a preference for technical thinking. As has recently been supported by the Quebec Essayiste Alain Deneault in his book la médiocratie, soft, bland and tasteless thought is required on campus. This liberal thinking, which is very much in line with the fashionable vulgate, prefers to process methodology rather than to go to the bottom of things.
Claiming to aspire to the purest objectivity, this thought is still consistent with the dominant ideology so as not to question the ideas received. The drastic reduction of freedom of expression in universities is tied to the hegemony of a caste that is killing intelligence slowly. Thought is plunged into technocratic propriety hostile to any innovation.
The reflex of the well-thinking is always the same: to attack the original theses to avoid the flock being confronted with a thought that disturbs. The sociologist Michel Maffesoli also dealt with this subject in at least two essays. Moreover, in a lecture he gave in October 2016 at Laval University in Quebec City, this professor emeritus of the Sorbonne took the opportunity to affirm, in a somewhat provocative formula, that “at the university, we were no longer thinking, but we were bleating,” which did not fail to make his audience of students, researchers and teachers react.
