ok, so you have suggested that humanities and public servants are useless.

Who then would you rely on to run a liberal democracy? Business executives alone, or those sponsored by business?
Who?

Also, who would you read. Just Andrew Bolt? Quadrant?

Just interested in your sources of wisdom. After all, business and Quadrant also employ and publish humanities scholars.

For example,

The Academy warmly congratulates Professor David Walker FASSA FAHA, who has been named the inaugural BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University. The new Chair will foster engagement with Chinese researchers, students, government and the community; raise the profile of studies of Australian society, history and culture; and provide academic leadership to a network of more than 30 Australian Studies Centres in Chinese universities.

Professor Walker is currently Chair of Australian Studies at Deakin University and Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Studies, Renmin University, Beijing. He has extensive experience in the development of Australian Studies programmes in PRChina, India, Japan and Indonesia. He has written extensively on Australian social and cultural history and is the author of Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939, UQP, 1999, winner of the Ernest Scott prize for History in 2001.

http://www.humanities.org.au/News/News/tabid/109/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1719/David-Walker-appointed-BHP-Billiton-Chair-of-Australian-Studies-at-Peking-University.aspx

Al I am saying is that in the real world, even big business gives importance to the humanities.

I doubt whether a healthy and vibrant liberal democracy would exist without a humanities contribution, albeit I don't believe that universities, with a left wing bias, should be the only source of contribution.

Squeers says:

"It's much easier to argue there's no such thing as truth than it is to establish the bona fides of anything, simply because the medium of all thinking, language, is cultural construct, complete with all its aporetic inconsistency. We can thus argue that everything is born of bias, as you suggest. However I differ and have little time for slides into relativism."

Well good for you Squeers; both this sort of relativism which seeps from the egregious garbage tip of Foucault and its converse the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ignore the objective reality.

Unfortunately Marx is also conflicted and demonstrates the chasm between fine theory and reality. Marx will always be subverted by tyrants and unlike the predicted so called inevitable decline of capitalism, will always degenerate to a dictatorship.

It is also regrettable that you equate Marxism which is as true as any Utopian schemata with the failed idea of AGW which is as testable as any scientific 'theory' and has been repudiated by overwhelming actual evidence against it. Although on second thought since Marxism has been tested many times with always catastrophic results the comparison between Marxism and AGW is apt.

But anyway as long as examples of crony capitalism, which really is a by product of failed Marxism, are wrongly used to show capitalism's inevitable decline this conversation will be meaningless.

CL: All I am saying is that in the real world, even big business gives importance to the humanities.
CL.: The Academy warmly congratulates Professor David Walker FASSA FAHA, who has been named the inaugural BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University.

So BHP Billiton is paying Walkers Salary. Do you think BHP Billiton hasn't given Walker a Capitalist agenda? Like the Guest Speaker at my son's Graduation. He was put up as the epitome of what great business people should be & he was responsible for Three Companies going broke one after the other. Of Course all the CEO's etc got a good pay out. ;-)

CL.: He has written extensively on Australian social and cultural history and is the author of Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850-1939,

So he has written a few books based on other books he has studied & written by authors who studied other old out of date books, ad infinitem. Does or has anybody written anything original in the last 20 years that would pertain to a highly mobile 21st. Century. I don't think so & if they did it would be shouted down by the present intelligencia anyway. We won't have any rocking the boat.

CL.: I doubt whether a healthy and vibrant liberal democracy would exist without a humanities contribution.

I would say that the humanities inteligencia is one of the groups responsible for the mess the World is in at present. You are claiming responsibility for the views of Governments throughout the World. The World Governments are failures & are JUST holding together economically, therefore your discipline must accept responsibility for the mess.

Indeed Marx's influence in the humanities was so profound that many people considered conservative or favourable to capitalism, hold to key assumptions in Marx's orthodoxy, such as Keynes's view that the business cycle originates in unregulated capitalism - (conveniently ignoring government's monopoly of money and credit) - and Milton Friedman's idea that government has some kind of presumptive competence to economize the supply of money!

In all honesty, I don't believe Jayb or Jardine are even remotely genuine.
Why do we need the humanities? I don't know, why do we need government? Why do we need laws?

To ask questions like those above requires a severe level of ignorance or sedation.

Well, lets consider why we need any number of courses.
What exactly does a marketing student learn? What does a business course give you?
There is a degree now designed for financial planning, which for $10,000 you can complete in a couple of weeks through private trainer? I have worked with loads of IT techs who have gone on to obtain MBAs - you would not permit a single one of them to run your milkbar.

These business courses are out of date by the time they are designed. They don't teach anything but indoctrination, which most any old Jardine could pick up within days of starting a new job.

To question the validity of studying the humanities is to question the value of being human. It reveals a mind entirely entranced by the prevailing valueless culture.

Tell me Jardine and or Jayb
What if anything do you value? You ask me to think for myself, well here is your chance, oh brave one.
What do you value. - I can't wait - take some time to provide something you won't regret typing.