Posted on 12/11/2017 3:06:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux
My plan involves a sixfold apocalypse. Yes, apocalypse.
The best starting point is total depravity. Higher education as we know it is indefensible. It presumes a false model of human development. People between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two cannot be trusted moving to a campus away from their parents, protected from any real consequences for stupid decisions, and taught random concepts by a professoriate anesthetized by the tenure system.
In reality, these four years of human development should be spent in conditions closer to basic combat training: they need physical regimentation. Swift punishments must impress upon them the costs of behaving foolishly. Their sexuality needs to be heavily circumscribed. Between eighteen and twenty-two, women need to be closely protected from rape. Men need guidance to transform themselves from impulsive sex maniacs into responsible providers and decent fathers.
The wasteful use of young adulthood for 40% of the American adult population is catastrophic. Overpriced tuitions force a large chunk of family savings into an inefficient economic sector ("higher education"), meaning that their money cannot go into productive industries. Youths are not being trained for citizenship. Instead of courting, marrying, and starting families in their prime, they accustom themselves to promiscuity, irresponsible thrills, and single lives burdened with debt. They have late and few children, whom they are ill equipped to raise.
In certain contexts, it is wise to burn the edges of a dry forest rather than let a wildfire rage at a time and in a manner out of our control. I suggest the following concrete steps, via congressional action.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You know I didn't write the above line, right? My post was responding to it.
I agree with your post, that a new form of higher education will evolve and eventually destroy the old order. That's how things work, provided we continue to have something resembling politcal and economic freedom here.
You are so correct in observing that today's "journalists" do not know how to form a proper debate, first identifying a worthy topic, nor even research a context.
Impressive! I put in my time at one of those white shoe firms, although as a contractor, and in the sales/pr/marketing end. It was great to work with people who were methodical as well as intelligent.
Yes, I got that you were responding to that point. I am just piling on.
Just making sure! Enjoyed your post.
It seems we disagree on the level of inertia in the present system. To coin a geological metaphor, I think it’s Ayers Rock, just sitting there on a plain for millennia while a few bits flake off and an occasional boulder falls. It seems that you think it’s a very large body with significant kinetic energy which will roll downhill at an accelerating rate if a few impediments are removed.
Only time will tell. Neither of us may live to see the “something totally different” that may emerge in geologic time. Meanwhile, Tom the Son hopes to start at Western Carolina University as a junior next fall, on a three-year program to an M.S. in Chemistry.
We probably don't. I see some cracks and fissures, but not a lot of movement yet. LOL to your deft phraseology!
Neither of us may live to see the something totally different that may emerge in geologic time.
Certainly true for me. Possibly true for you; but may be well in place for your grandchildren. ;-)
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