Posted on 02/29/2016 10:43:02 AM PST by Academiadotorg
How do student protestors today differ from their predecessors back in the 1960s? The latter were more well-read.
"This is a post-literacy generation," Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) said recently at the Heritage Foundation. "They know how to read but don't read."
Charles Kesler, editor-in-chief of the Claremont Review of Books, notes that the so-called New Left of the 1960s actually would occasionally quote Abraham Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence, sources many current campus revolutionaries are unfamiliar with. "I don't want to romanticize the old New Left even though it looks admirable compared to the new New Left," Kesler said, while on the panel with Wood.
Kesler, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, has had plenty of experience with the New Left, past and present. Last Fall, in fact, there were protests at Claremont McKenna.
"One student said he didn’t like the protests but wouldn’t say anything about it," Kesler remembered. "I asked him why, he said, 'I'm a coward.'"
"I asked him what he was afraid of, he said, other students." He did not want to get mobbed on Facebook.
The architects of such a climate on campus are sort of obvious, by definition, but those who don’t share their philosophy should not rest easy because they are not culpable. Indeed, Wood notes that all of the above occurred, in part, due to "preemptive surrender and negligence on the part of conservatives."
Hopefully after Burney is flushed tomorrow, these folks will be “disillusioned” and forget about voting in Nov.
Indeed.
The terrorists aren't going to mob me on Facebook.
I hope so this moron said if Bernie gets out he will hold his nose and pull for the beyotch.
The new New Left: control social media.
The best way to crush dissent in this age. I never thought I’d see people being cowards because they didn’t want to be “crushed on Facebook”. Wow.
Last year, I was complimented by a coworker on how healthy my salad looked (from the Joel Fuhrman "Eat to Live" regimen). Another coworker remarked, "yeah it's close to swimsuit season." I said "thank you, but the last time I was at the beach, I was referred to as Moby Dick."
This young woman, who has a CPA, glared at me in such a way that I immediately said, "you know, as in the great white whale of Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick.'" She replied, "Oh".
I have to really watch what I say, because these men and women are generally unread and not inquisitive. On the flip side, when I wear my Atlas Shrugged themed shirts to work, no one has a clue.
Quite possibly because the only thing he knew about Calvin Coolidge was related to the "Coolidge Effect".
If you have a smartphone, the answer to about anything is one click away. What young kids are missing by not reading and working to understand something, vs doing the Google click and get, is development of critical thinking skills.
Oh you could have some fun here. Mail an urgent package to the office addressed to John Galt...
1960s protesters weren’t well read either.
I see a trend.
An engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
I've had several people ask me about the book, one actually read it. He says he now looks at the world in a different manner. Poor guy, he hasn't found his Dagny (or Cheryl) yet.
You should get a Reagan Che t-shirt, just for giggles.
App dev shop?
I wish...govt contract audit.
My son is very intelligent. But he doesn’t enjoy reading. Drives me crazy!
However, when I want to find out how to do something, he can find it on youtube in about 30 seconds.
This is our world we are living in.
I skimmed over, missed the CPA part. The Atlas Shrugged shirt thing threw me, assumed a t-shirt, which says “millenial app dev shop” to me.
If Millennels wind up voting for Trump, it will proves that THEY ARE VERY SMART.
Anyone else...then they’re no better than the Baby Boom generation.
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