{"id":12804,"date":"2023-06-03T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2023-06-04T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T22:11:13","slug":"vanishing-victor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/03\/vanishing-victor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/27\/opinion\/english-humanities-ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don\u2019t Kill \u2018Frankenstein\u2019 With Real Frankensteins at Large<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Maureen Dowd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frankenstein | &quot;It&#039;s Alive!&quot;\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wL9E2QKP2us?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of Algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was pushing the rock up a hill, mastering Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce and Mary Shelley, I failed to notice that the humanities had fallen off the cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>t was as if the bottle of great wine I saved to celebrate my degree was bouchonn\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Yorker ran an&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2023\/03\/06\/the-end-of-the-english-major\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obit<\/a>&nbsp;declaring \u201cThe End of the English Major.\u201d One English professor flatly told Nathan Heller, the writer of the 10,000-plus-word magazine piece, that \u201cthe Age of Anglophilia is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harvard English department handed out tote bags with slogans like \u201cCurrently reading\u201d and dropped its poetry requirement for an English degree. But it was too late for such pandering. Students were fleeing to the hotter fields of tech and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAssigning \u2018Middlemarch\u2019 in that climate was like trying to land a 747 on a small rural airstrip,\u201d Heller wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trustees at Marymount University in Virginia voted unanimously in February to phase out majors such as English, history, art, philosophy and sociology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/27\/opinion\/english-humanities-ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Don\u2019t Kill \u2018Frankenstein\u2019 With Real Frankensteins at Large by Maureen Dowd By the time I took off my mortarboard two weeks ago, my degree in English literature was de trop. Instead of a Master of Arts, I should have gotten a Master of Algorithms. As I was pushing the rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}