This Is A Great Opportunity To Destroy Academia

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

This Is A Great Opportunity To Destroy Academia

Never let a good crisis go to waste, which in the current crisis means we must use the fact that our universities have shown themselves to be petri dishes swimming with anti-American ideologies, combined with pre-existing trends, to lance this particular cultural boil.

Let’s be clear: Academia today is a pack of rabid reds, and we need to put it down like Old Yeller. And academia itself has loaded up the 12 gauge.

They will say that we oppose academia because we are stupid Neanderthals, just like Trump is (That’s Lie #2 in my new book!). No. We would be stupid to let this undead institution on. This entire wokeness idiocy is the result of hack academics peddling half-baked theories that justify the consolidation of elite power at the expense of those of us who don’t live on the diploma dole.

The bizarre language – “We must struggle to decolonialize the cisnormative paradigm to purge the structural racism caused by the male gaze and amplify whiny, entitled voices” – and the performance art aspects of the media-friendly insurrection – notice how they only get frisky in jurisdictions where they can count on the pinko mayor to hold back the constables and on the local DA to merely slap their wrists? – is all a direct result of indoctrination in the colleges that we normal people support.

Why should we do that? We have no moral obligation to subsidize a generation of brats.

Now, the only thing really keeping academia attached to the body politic like the institutional deer tick that it is was the widespread and baseless belief that our universities are somehow our culture’s crucial repositories of knowledge and learning. But it’s kind of hard to argue that when it belches forth graduates who decide to show that black lives matter by toppling statues of Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

If these bozos are considered “educated,” I’ll stick with the allegedly ignorant. At least someone without an Ivy League degree can give me a hand changing my oil or, you know, defending the Constitution with a rifle.

On the plus side, I like my chances in a revolution sparked by a generation that thinks words can be violence. And since none of them ever heard of Ft. Sumter, because that’s actual history instead of grievance tallying, none of them are hip to the fact that Democrats are already 0-1 on starting fights over their bizarre and repellant racist dogmas.

This decision to use academia’s institutional credibility as a cultural chamber pot comes at just the wrong time. Video and computer technology was already making the old giant lecture hall model obsolete even before the bat soup flu. You get the same level of loving personal attention staring at a iPad in your house as you do staring at the TA 100 yards away from you in a behemoth lecture hall, and you don’t have to breath in either the viruses or the scent of old Pabst wafting off of the unwashed bodies of your fellow students.

And adding insult to insult is the idea that you have to pay upwards of $50,000 or more a year for the “college experience.” The Porsche experience is nice, but most people still choose the Chevy experience. You get there either way – just the latter way you aren’t impoverished for the rest of your life.

Of course, because it’s the Ivy League – that same institution that brought us the Wall Street collapse, Iraq, and a society where the nonsense scribbled down in White Fragility is not immediately laughed out of polite company – we have now Harvard demanding full tuition for the 2020-2021 academic year conducted completely by video learning. It’s basically a public confession that the whole point of the place is getting admitted – as long as at the end of a few years you get a diploma reading “HARVARD,” who cares what goes on during them?

Over-priced, inefficient, and not merely useless but actively detrimental to society – yeah, I’m sold on academia as currently constituted. So, let’s take this opportunity to burst this societal pimple.

First, defund the universities. All the kids love the defunding, right? Let the schools compete in the market. Sure, some marquee schools will flourish – there are always going to be rich daddies willing to pay the premium to send Kaden or Ashleigh to a four-year party on some leafy campus. But it’s going to force the other schools to provide value or die. Good riddance.

Second, tax the endowments. The Ivy League is really a bunch of hedge funds pretending to be schools anyway. Now, it would be tempting to redistribute the endowments to schools that have less money and watch these people scamper away from the socialism they pretend to love like roaches from a kitchen light – shouldn’t they pay their fair share? The problem is that it would be a lifeline to the colleges that will fail, and we want them to die. The taxed money can go to buy weapons to sink ChiCom subs.

Third, student loans need to come from the school and to be dischargeable in bankruptcy. A school is going to be a lot less eager to say, “Sure, go ahead and major in Norwegian Feminist Dance Theory” if they are on the hook when their ardent young scholar can’t get a gig that can pay back the sticker price.

Fourth, enforce not merely free speech on campus but ideological diversity. Diversity is good, right? Okay, in a country where half of it thinks Trump rocks and more than half dig Jesus, having a faculty and administration where literally no one publicly confesses to doing either is UNSAT.

And fifth, we need to stop falling for the notion that our colleges occupy some sort of intellectual, and even moral, high ground. They don’t. They are populated by greedy, malevolent, and stupid people who have done incalculable damage to their students morally, intellectually, and financially, and we should hold them in contempt.

Somehow, along the way, we were sold the impression that college was the gateway to a special caste to which we should aspire. We need to reject that condescending and pretentious notion, and tell academia to kiss our aspirations.

Instead, we must push the Mike Rowe vision of a society where you don’t need a bachelors degree to shift paper from Box A to Box B in a cubicle. The fact is that our lame public teacher unions have done such a crappy job that employers are forced to look for a college diploma to get some shaky assurance that the prospective candidate possesses the basic skills that a high school diploma should attest to. We need to make high school great again. For many, many people, college is a waste of valuable time and money. Every kid should not go to college.

This is our chance to undo one of America’s biggest mistakes in the last century, allowing academia to metastasize into the societal tumor that it has become. Technology and economics were already gut-punching this flabby punk before both the double-strike combo of the pangolin pandemic panic and the woke insurrection revealed that not only did the emperor have no clothes but he wasn’t packing much to speak of besides.

It’s going to fight for its life, and its play will be – surprise – more blood money from us to keep it going. But it has been revealed as yet another undead leftist institution, staggering on long after it should have rested in pieces. Let’s take this opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of academia as we know it.

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Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

That was a lovely, well conceived and astonishingly clear program to put “higher education” back where it belongs – at the service of society.

Auntie heartily endorses defunding, dismantling, and ultimately eliminating the current progtard; Marxist; LBGTQPIBN; Maoist; Trotskyite; jihadist et.al. education model and business.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Like all things out of control it is time for a reset

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

Mike Rowe is a pitchman like late Billy Mays. When you see him in a hardhat and work boots, it’s a costume. That’s not his everyday work clothes. Mike has a degree communication from Towson University, and he’s a product of the same public schools so many on TBP denigrate.

I agree with Mike that blue-collar trades are critical and should be rewarded as well as applauded. Where we disagree is on why kids are choosing college over those trades. I contend its market driven, not as Mike claims because parents & guidance counselors are pushing kids on the college path. If more of those blue-collar jobs offered wages & benefits providing a good standard of living more kids would choose the “Community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs” path. There still are good blue-collar jobs out there, but they are not norm as they once were.

Please don’t give me anecdotes like “I know a plumber making 100 grand” (so do I). Or I know an unemployed college grad (so do I). Those colleges currently in the crosshairs produce attorneys (like me), physicians (like my wife), and nurses (like my niece). We’re all doing fine financially, without student loan debt, and you can’t get those degrees at a trade school.

It is noble to work hard, but if you’re working hard and not getting a decent standard of living, benefits for your family, and a comfortable retirement, then you’re a schmuck. There’s nothing noble about busting your ass just to make someone else wealthy.

Mike’s foundation, mikeroweWORKS, is funded by the Charles Koch Foundation.
Now ask yourself why Koch would be funding an outfit that questions the value of a college degree and praises finding “meaning and fulfillment through hard work….”
Better yet, Lets ask the late George Carlin:

“but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it….”
(George Carlin)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason

Mygirl....Maybe

So you and the wife have degrees in something besides perpetual leftist nonsense? Great. Now go find a university today that isn’t promoting that leftist nonsense. I’ll wait.

Most attorneys and doctors are liberals, they are part and parcel of the indoctrination that is mandatory in the curriculum and programming. You want that degree? Better go along to get along. What electives are required to finish out that degree? Any mandatory ‘gender studies?’ Even community colleges are onboard with the PC, white man bad, men can menstruate and calling oneself a whatever makes it true, crap.

The ‘educated’ person that Carlin was referencing wouldn’t and couldn’t be a product of ANY current ‘institution of higher learning. ‘ Said institutions are nothing more than indoctrination centers and as the aging crop of ‘academics’ leaves they are replaced with ever more ill-educated and mal-informed young imbeciles only capable of spouting the party line. They cannot read a paper map or do simple math and they are ‘instructors.’

BTW: I have a graduate degree, a terminal degree, and I can state with authority that academia is a snake pit that panders to the lowest common denominator while quashing and destroying any and everyone who fails to follow the party line. As to higher education? Are you familiar with Bill Ayers?

Bill Ayers was a university professor and his wife is an attorney. In their youth they were members and founders of the Weather Underground, a group that was instrumental in several bombing and murders

Ayers is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.[3] During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama. He is married to lawyer and Clinical Law Professor Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground.

Here are some of Bill, the university professor’s finer quotes:

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.
Bill Ayers

I don’t regret setting bombs.
Bill Ayers

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
Bill Ayers

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081006101418AABdMmT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

I’ve heard a lot about liberal indoctrination in both universities and secondary school, but I didn’t see it. If it’s happening, it should be drawn out into the light of day.
And according to the FBI, the last known crime by the Weather Underground was in 1981, and they were out of business by the mid-1980’s. Maybe we should focus on crimes in progress rather than historic ones, just sayin.
By the way, I never met Bill Ayers or Bernardine Dohrn, but I did know Abbie Hoffman and Bill Kunstler. It was on Bill Kunstler’s advice that I decided to enroll in law school.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“Those colleges currently in the crosshairs produce attorneys (like me), physicians (like my wife), and nurses (like my niece). We’re all doing fine financially, without student loan debt, and you can’t get those degrees at a trade school.”

Wow, who’da thunk that in today’s babysitter society that an attorney, a doctor, and a nurse would be highly compensated by a system that makes it mandatory that people pay for attorneys, doctors, and nurses? Fuck off, ambulance chaser.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

Wait, wait, I said “doing fine financially” not “highly compensated “, lol.

And if you or someone in your family is hit with an appendicitis you’ll be very glad somebody went to medical school & nursing school.

And by the way, I’m a retired criminal defense attorney; not a tort lawyer.

gammer
gammer

Not only have the universities failed, they have abused our children.
SJW Instructors HATE Their Students
When someone who loves you tells you about the world what do they say:
They tell you that you can do anything if you set your mind to it
that the world is tough and you shouldn’t feel sorry for yourself
it takes hard work and perseverance to be successful
you will make mistakes and have failures and that you should learn from them
get back up and keep trying, keep falling down and get back up again
they Love you no matter what, even if you do fail and they will be there to help you
do not to let others define you, that you must define yourself and be true to yourself
They tell you the Truth because they Love you

When someone Hates you, what do they tell you:
They Lie to you
They tell you that it’s not your fault
that its everyone else’s fault
that you are a victim and to feel sorry for yourself
They define you by the color of your skin
by your Gender
by your Religion
by your Age, Origen and any other attributes they can.
They define you and tell you everyone else is your enemy and that you should HATE them because they are why you are un successful, because of your Skin color, your Religion, your Gender

Children in Universities are being abused by child abusers who HATE them!

Ethnic Cat
Ethnic Cat

I mentioned before that the good thing about the shut down is that it put the kibosh on so many unsavory movements and developments, it’s as if the world stopped just in time for me to get off. Too bad I stepped onto Planet Wakanda.

Mygirl....Maybe

It feels more like Planet of the Apes….just sayin’….

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