Posted on 01/23/2026 3:44:18 AM PST by karpov
Do American colleges still teach students how to think? Or have whole programs been built on fashionable but unexamined assumptions? Increasingly, one wonders whether parts of the curriculum are outright harmful. For years, it has felt as though American higher education were approaching rock bottom. One of the newest degrees on offer suggests we may finally have arrived.
As a religious practice within Buddhism—particularly in its Theravada and Zen traditions—so-called mindfulness meditation aims to cultivate an awareness of the present moment, calm the mind, and help one avoid being carried away by thoughts. The term often overlaps with self-help trends and spa treatments these days, especially on American campuses.
At Bucknell University, for instance, students are offered a “mindfulness menu” featuring instructions for DIY body scrubs, eye masks, lotions, and similar indulgences. At Yale, students can enroll in a four-week Koru mindfulness course that promises to help them to become “kinder” to themselves (is there anyone else?) or to craft their “very own meditation bracelet with a variety of beautiful beads.”
But mindfulness programs on campus have moved well beyond weekend retreats and self-help courses. They have now embedded themselves within higher education itself, emerging as an academic field that, paradoxically, encourages students to calm what ought to be active minds and to think as little as possible.
Lesley University, for example, offers both an M.A. and a graduate certificate in mindfulness studies, while Atlantic University markets an M.A. in the same subject. At Brown, the School of Public Health houses the Brown Mindfulness Center, which offers not only a master of public health concentration in mindfulness but a certificate track in mindfulness-based stress-reduction teacher training.
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This is “higher education?”
<><>Bucknell students are offered a “mindfulness menu”
<><>features instructions for DIY body scrubs, eye masks, lotions, etc.
<><>Yale students can enroll in a four-week Koru “mindfulness course”
<><>to help them to become “kinder” to themselves
<><>or to craft their “very own meditation bracelet w/ a variety of beautiful beads.”
Higher education is an oxymoron easily proven by looking at the left and much of today’s workforce.
The average hourly wage for college graduates is $20.00 per hour which makes sense since the vast majority of today’s degrees are totally worthless.
Isn't it obvious that no 20 something white male wants to go out in the corporate world begging for some entry level job and watching their minority and female colleagues under perform and get promoted for it.
Instead living in some luxury residence in comfort often with service and amenities most adults never obtain and traveling at their leisure and without cost, etc.?
Big f****** surprise. Life is hard. Suck it up boys and get out there and ovecome it.
The more they think they can just assume, the less they’d have to think about things that matter enough to make a difference. Plus, it empowers and encourages the individual to make bad decisions that come with their unintended consequences. They’ll take all the empowerment they can get but are not necessarily qualified or responsible enough to be able to use it wisely.
A few years ago I was a regular at the local Vet Center. Among the topics were “mindfulness”. It was so abstract and outright dumb no matter how well the attempt was made to explain it.
I don’t understand the idiocy of business owners whining about their kids living at home, and/or being subsidized by them. THEY LET THEM! It’s THEIR FAULT. Grow a pair already. Sheesh.
I’ve always liked Shaqs approach. He tells his kids, “Im rich. You’re not.” Emphasizing he’s the one who earned the money. They need to find a way to earn theirs.
They’re teaching them to be mindless.
Can you make a lot of money with Mindfullness? People have college loans to pay off, so a good career in a field like that would really help. If the money is good.
So, after centuries of it being a staple of Western thought that elevated Western culture to unrivaled heights has Augustinian philosophy been abandoned.
https://iep.utm.edu/augustine-political-and-social-philosophy/
A college degree in self-help from drugstore paperbacks. Nirvana at last.
Society has become extremely hostile to men and wanting men to take a 2nd class role, while simultaneously expecting those same men to shoulder the primary responsibility of society itself. Why would we expect any male to accept that?
Once society became an Accusatory Society where weak, defective people blamed others, calling them racist for being white, toxic for being male, homophobic for their normal sexuality, don't be surprised when that same man shrugs, says to himself, "let it rot", and walks away.
Men didn’t leave society. Society left men.
Once the light went out at the end of the tunnel, there was no longer a reason to bust your ass for Leftist globalists.
Nirvana at last. A college degree in “self-help” from drugstore paperbacks.
Why read Plato when you can get college-level DIY
instructions for body scrubs, eye masks, lotions, etc?
Yea, a bad witches’ brew concocted by Globalists and poured over feminists.
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