It is simply a matter of historical fact that the dominant intellectual culture
of any particular society reflects the interest of the dominant group in that
society, In a slave owning society the beliefs about human beings and
human rights and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.
In the society, which... is based on the power of certain people to control
and profit from the lives and work of millions of others, the dominant
intellectual culture will reflect the needs of the dominant group. So, if you
look across the board, the ideas that pervade psychology, sociology, history,
political economy and political science fundamentally reflect certain elite
interests.
And the academics who question that too much tend to get shunted to the
side or to be seen as sort of •radicals'
- Dr. Gabor Maté
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