Posted on 05/16/2020 7:46:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 2020 many memes pay homage to the high school and college seniors who were supposed to have a commencement and walk up in robes and square hats to receive diplomas. That is how civilized societies reward teenagers and young adults for wrapping up four years of general education. But the coronavirus changes everything, in the way money behaves in the Cyndi Lauper song Money Changes Everything. I wish I could be like the millions of people who can turn out a fulsome praise to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy.
Instead, Id like to pay honor to the class of 2020 by giving them the precious gift of honesty. This crop of graduates has been lied to, probably more than any other. I should know, because for all the years theyve lived, I was inside the machine that manufactured the lies.
This year I graduated at the age of forty-nine in my own way. After twenty years of teaching college students, I finally left my last academic job and moved on from academia. I watched twenty classes of students move through the system while these current graduates incubated. My departure was as unceremonious as their non-ceremonies are going to be.
So heres some truth that needs to be told: Your teachers didnt know what they were talking about most of the time. I know you may have liked many of them, but thats a kind of Stockholm Syndrome you get from the deliberate mental work the institutions do on you. Youre in school and they are the ones to whom you are captive. Thats why they may have seemed so kind; they needed you to give them high teaching evaluations so they could be promoted.
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Lopez has had a rough road to travel.
Wish him well as he moves on.
His observations are tough, but for the most part true.
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