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In Reply to: Chancellor apologized to Jules posted by Observer on August 26, 2005 at 13:05:46:
Chancellor himself waxes rather eloquent on the matter of his self-interests in maintaining his position, which are career based.
I find it intriguing that he mentions a lack of confidence as a scholar out of one side of his mouth, while "staking his professional reputation" on his opinion of children's well-being in The Family out of the other, an assertion that sounds rather like a bluff, macho posturing, or a classical instance of exhibition of the subject matter of the recent philosophical book by Harry G. Frankfurt, "On Bullshit."
I hereby give you Chancellor's own words:
"But, the message was clear. I had been deliberately and graciously allowed in. I was a special guest in their home, even a friend. And friends do not stab each other in the back; or hand the knife over to someone else anxious to do the stabbing.
I took this responsibility seriously. And there was another factor. I had not only invested over five years of my life in this project, I had invested five very critical years of my career as well. I came into the academy late in life, as a second career. I came for my love of teaching, not scholarship. I am a very good teacher, but not a particularly confident scholar. And though “young” in terms of publication and academic reputation, I am far from being a young man. Life in The Family may well be the pinnacle of my scholarly achievement, and the “world’s leading expert on The Family” may well be the only mark of distinction I shall ever carry into a scholarly assembly. But all that would be severely limited, if not completely fractured if The Family were to repudiate what I produced and cut off all contact, and thus terminate any current claim at being “an expert.” And besides, I would lose some friends."
http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/Cornerstone_Magazine:_The_Family_and_the_Truth(
