Academia is a massive leftist echo-chamber and political bloc. Its a huge bubble, kept afloat by massive government spending and massive student debt-slavery
This bubble needs to be popped.
Stop sending kids to college.....
For the vast majority of academia you’re absolutely correct.
There are a few colleges worth attending, but very few.
One of my kids just graduated from a very small, yet highly regarded specialized engineering university. Total geek school.
They had no teams, no athletics, no dorms, no student council, no activity fees, no political correctness etc.
Students could live in an in campus apartment where they were responsible for their own meals. Don’t cook-go hungry. It taught them actual adulthood.
One of my daughters is taking classes through Unbound.org. It’s an outfit that customizes a bachelors program through a variety of online classes. They don’t teach anything, they connect students to online classes through various universities. She’ll graduate, next year I think from a known university in new Jersey.
She quit her regular job and is a full time nanny. Gets paid well and takes her classes while the kid is napping.
Just a couple miles from my son’s college is the highly PC University of Maryland, a place loaded with self-righteous liberal snowflakes who are too stupid and self absorbed to look before stepping into the street. (I once drove a bus through campus and had these little darlings walk right in front of me as if the laws of physics didn’t apply to them
“Academia is a massive leftist echo-chamber and political bloc. Its a huge bubble, kept afloat by massive government spending and massive student debt-slavery.”
Basically. As Plato said in 450 B.C. in chapter 7 of the Republic:
A cave full of ignorant prisoners stuck in the chains of hate who resent free people entering the cave with keys to unlock the chains.