Posted on 01/26/2024 7:42:27 AM PST by karpov
If nothing else, the barbarous attacks on Israel by the terror group Hamas exposed the morally vacuous viscera of much of American higher education. By now, we have all we need to know about the “decolonization” folks due to their brutish antics in our streets and on the campuses. In the Middle East, such people are the enemies of civilization. On the campuses, they are the friends of barbarism everywhere.
How did primitivism make such a comeback in the face of logic, reason, science, progress, and humane values? Who are these people who exalt a barbaric anti-science, anti-progress, anti-civilization ethos that leads them to embrace murder, mutilation, rape, torture, and infanticide?
The answer is that they are followers of a bizarre quasi-religious mash-up of critical theory, neo-Marxist pedagogy, Fanonian chaos, and primitive racialism. They call this concoction “social justice.” On their lips, “decolonization” is recited alongside something called “indigeneity” and “indigenous knowledge” to drum up support for the inclusion of Neolithic “ways of knowing” in university curricula. Such terms provide easy labels to identify villains and victims, both in the university and, odd as it seems, in the “oppressor” state of Israel.
The doctrine is depraved to an inhuman extent. It is a tangible expression of the descent of a large part of humanity into an orgy of violence. “Decolonization” is civilizational regression, aided and abetted by mediocre bureaucrats and observed in silence by fearful and emasculated faculty.
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Those who can.. Do, those that can’t.. Teach.
So you have your answer.
With exception of some private colleges, the answer is NO.
Next easy question?
Commodus, in real life, had major flaws, but he also had highly developed warrior skills, too.
He accompanied his father, Marcus Aurelius, on military campaigns for almost 10 years, but was just 18 years old when he became sole Emperor.
He engaged in horse racing and chariot racing, was a skilled archer, fought hundreds of man eating animals, and fought several hundred gladiators, but killed only a few of them.
Obviously, no gladiator seriously tried to kill the Emperor, so the fix was in, but he had real combat skills and courage.
His mind disintegrated at a young age, he declared himself a god, and he delegated almost all of his administrative responsibilities to sycophants.
He was murdered at age 31, by his wrestling coach, who put him in a head lock and held him under water in a Roman bath house.
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