Posted on 02/28/2025 12:39:31 PM PST by karpov
“You deserve better. You’re a victim. Nothing is your fault.”
It’s what re-education camps do. They make you unhappy. Here in the US, sadistic parents pay to remand their children to these camps. It’s a cultural flaw, but different strokes . .
That’s right. The Leftist Indoctrination has a negative effect on their mindsets.
I enjoyed my time in college. I started double majors in physics and math; but, found my true love with the physics department’s IBM 1130. Finished up with a CS degree, physics & math minors. A had friends that enjoyed spelunking and other activities. Joined Army ROTC. Those years were magnificent.
We had an underground tunnel connecting male and female dorms. At the meeting point sat an elderly lady wearing an eyeshade. When someone of one sex tried to make it to the other, they would hide out of eyesight and then make a fast dash to the other side before she could stand up. Not me. I was a firm adherent of the 3 feet on the ground rule.
No faith in the good and gracious God of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Marxism (or American Neo-marxism) is by definition an ideology of conflict and victimhood.
I look back fondly, too. Majored physics and history of art, near eastern ancient. Terrible memories of Schroedinger’s Equations. Great memories of French Impressionism projected on huge screens in immense auditoriums. Father was an ROTC Cavalry instructor at the same college, where he dated mother. Great photo of a line of men on horseback with their revolvers in the air. Articles about ROTC students should not be wearing their spurs at the college dances.
“existence of a depressing ennui”
The left obsesses about how bad things are. Conservatives feel grateful for how good things are. Who would you rather hand out with?
Exactly right.
Well spending 150-200k for a worthless product(degree) is pretty fn depressing!💯🤬🤬🤬
Agree, that the liberals always seem to be pissed off about some perceived injustice in the world.
Most see college as a social experience not an academic one.
My accounting degree was unique: I had the same professor for over 30 semester hours, and he never used numbers, taught the accounting theory behind each problem. No multiple guess, strictly essay questions for the midterms and finals. I'm still applying his lessons to this day.
The article Gender Ideology Run Amok states that since 2012 young girls have been especially vulnerable to an onslaught from social media resulting in a 4000% increase in gender dysphoria. Schools often encourage this behavior, while at the same time contending against anorexia and bulimia which have the same source. If this trend was the province of true science, the first question to be researched would be to discover why.
In England and Wales, the number of teenagers seeking treatment at the Gender Identity Development Service (gids), the main clinic treating dysphoria, has risen 17-fold since 2011-12
I read an article in National Review many years ago (like 50 years ago) about the effect of college on young people.
One of the students interviewed was a female at one of the elite women’s colleges. She said that one of her professors “wanted me to get rid of myself.” I remember that phrase clearly.
I don’t think it was necessarily an invitation to suicide. I think the expression comes from the teachings of Jung and Kierkegaard, which were fashionable in academia in the late 60s and through the 70s.
Yeah, I had a good time. Every last one of those wonderful professors are dead now. They all considered themselves to be my surrogate fathers.
Sounds like you had a great setup as well. I'm with your on those Schroedinger’s Equations. Maxwell's Equations were also unfriendly.
I attended university after my military service, I was( and am still) happily married, and was raising a daughter,
so it was interesting to see what BS the instructors would dump on the kids.
I freely challenged anything that I thought was outside normal class content. I always won.
Military teaches you to be responsible to yourself, others and how to do it with proper respect for authority.
Most my classmates would be jaw dropping confused upon occasion when I challenged the instructor when they strayed off subject.
It is my belief that in non STEM degrees students should have a few years of real life experience before pursuing a
BA deree in basket weaving, teaching, or psychology.
It’s just like the Media. The rank and file university workers, be they faculty or staff, are so ALL IN on ideology, that they don’t care about the long term sustainability of their campus. In fact, most of them would rather see their campus shut down than moderate their ideology. Because its not about the students, it’s about The Revolution.
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