Posted on 06/17/2022 8:22:44 AM PDT by karpov
Carl Dobsky’s brilliant, fiery painting “Birds of Paradise” has been the focus of attention at his recent exhibitions, because it accurately and effectively captures the zeitgeist of contemporary American life. The painting is set in the backyard of a bourgeois Los Angeles home, where a laughing group of partying Angelinos drink red wine from large glasses, snort lines of cocaine, and shoot selfies against the burning backdrop of an uncontrolled wildfire pouring destructive rage over the brush and houses covering the Hollywood Hills. Soon, the flames will scorch the landscape around the pool and turn the home into another tornado of fire, but the partiers will have moved to another place and will continue eternally.
Satirical paintings are always open to interpretation, but this one is especially biting and points a sharp finger at American elites who disregard the heralding of a catastrophic future. Although its message could be equally well directed at the cream of the entertainment business, at journalists, or at politicians, Dobsky’s work is especially meaningful to close observers of the slow-motion collapse of private liberal-arts institutions, who are keenly aware of the dissonant devil’s tritone of recruitment, social justice, and education.
A catastrophic demographic fire is sweeping over private universities like a tsunami. But faculty social-justice warriors, delighting in their supremacy, pay no attention. The economist Nathan D. Grawe projects that the population of 18-year-olds in huge swaths of the United States will decline by as much as 15% between 2012 and 2029. Including mature students in enrollment calculations makes little difference, lifting only a handful of states on Grawe’s heat-map out of fire-alarm red and into the more benevolent yellows heralding a tiny increase. For the majority of private institutions, the outlook is grim.
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Moral poverty means that at least there is a small amount of morals there. The left has no morals whatsoever, and we will hopefully treat them as such when the tipping point comes, and we deal with them in the manner that they so very much deserve.
Après nous, le déluge.
Realism, meh. That’s what cameras and Photoshop are for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
Bwahaha, can’t happen fast enough, imo. These rotten wokesters will be eating each other by the end of this decade as colleges and universities close for lack of students.
You receive training for a job.
You receive an education to be a good citizen.
A Liberal Arts education is a fine education, if it’s taught by competent teachers.
We just have so many awful teachers at our schools.
To everyone:
Click over to the site and see the picture, it’s comparable to Théodore Géricault’s “Raft of the Medusa”(in the Louvre)!
This guy knows his business!
Universities will do their usual - lower standards and get the government to pay for more 'students' to get a four year vacation on the taxpayers dime.
This can be done in the name of A NEW 'diversity'. A 'diversity' that will includes poverty stricken sexual weirdos with low IQ's from third world Asian hellholes.
(A group most real universities aren't fighting for - so recruiting will be easy)
Free 'education' on the American taxpayers dime to people who don't speak English and won't be able to read their diplomas. PROBLEM SOLVED. '
“To educate the mind and not the morals is to educate a menace to society’’.- Theodore Roosevelt.
Re: Private universities?
The rot includes state universities, community colleges, and both public and private elementary and high schools.
Nearly every teacher in this nation was taught by Marxist professors in communist-run colleges. This is true everywhere both private and public from pre-K through to university grad school.
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