Posted on 12/11/2021 9:36:49 AM PST by Rich21IE
"By choosing your courses carefully, you can avoid the progressive sermonizing that passes for scholarship in some departments, but everyone has to undergo the orientation and first-year programs. You may have come to study computer science or literature or biochemistry, but first you’ll have to learn about social justice, environmental sustainability, gender pronouns, and microaggressions. You may have been planning to succeed by hard work, but first you’ll have to acknowledge your privilege or discover your victimhood. If you arrived at college hoping to broaden your intellectual horizons, you’ll quickly be instructed which ideas are off-limits."
Read it and weep
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
I’m a victim, give me money.
My advice to a young person wanting to set themselves up with a secure, relatively ideologically free career is to seriously think about two professions. 1) Become a plumber, get your master’s license and then put every cent into creating your OWN business, OR 2) Go to school to become a mortician, do your time apprenticing and learning and working and then put every cent into creating your own business, whether contract or in-house.
The civilized world will NEVER be without either. And, if by some chance Dystopia happens I’d say that while you’re learning how to plumb stuff or embalm somebody, GET SOME GUNS and practice, practice, practice because you’ll need them...
A guy from high school worked with a mortician at a funeral home. It payed well even though he was just a worker bee. He said the really bad part was when they had to embalm a child. That was really hard on him.
It worked for Bonasera.
Frankly, if it was me I’d go for plumber. My BIL is a plumber who had his own company.
I’ve been privilege to be mostly self educated.
Some would say I have a way to go.
No one ever gave me a job because I was related to them or I was even friends of the family nor did I have any connections.
I’m just thankful I didn’t go through any of this modern day politically motivated brain washing they call education.
I anticipate that there will soon be a hyper-inflationary need for morticians in America.
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That's what college is about these days.These things (intelligence & common sense) will then cause
you no difficulties in your glorious future as a brainwashed
moronic automaton slave entity.
You'll be a total moron - and be happy.
So you'd better go apply for the biggest student loan
that you can get. Now. Go do it NOW.
The process described reminded me of the processes cults like the Moonies and Hare Krishnas used to capture the minds of college students back in the day.
It is a cult and they are stealing our children.
The Iron Law was promulgated by Jerry Pournelle, an American essayist and novelist, who maintained that any organization has two kinds of people: those dedicated to furthering the organization’s original mission—like academics who want their university to turn out well-educated students; and those dedicated to furthering the bureaucracy by expanding their budgets and staffs. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy holds that the second group will inevitably take over the place.
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Whatever it’s doing for the students, the activism is definitely good for the administrators. Just as in 1970, when the riot at the University of South Carolina inspired the initial program, college presidents’ first response to student protests is to throw money at first-year programs and their colleagues in the cocurricular bureaucracy—the offices with names like Student Life, Student Success, Diversity and Inclusion, and Multicultural Affairs. That’s one reason that the number of campus administrators has grown ten times faster than the number of tenured professors in recent decades, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The professors and students can’t escape the Iron Law of Bureaucracy. While scholars worry about the lack of full-time jobs and students complain that half their courses are now taught by part-timers, the bureaucrats go on expanding programs to create more activists—and thus more protests—to expand their staffs.
Good article describing the brainwashing that college students undergo at almost all universities. It is a racket where Leftists get money from students and taxpayers to poison the minds of incoming freshmen. Thanks for posting.
I try every now and then to explain this to people and it always falls on deaf ears.
Most of your college indoctrination is in the English classes, the Math classes, the Humanities classes, and the other "core" classes that they assign. Ethics classes are a huge one. The only ethical thing you can ever do is redistribute wealth. When I went to college, these are the class types where most of the indoctrination was at.
Yes, I said math classes. Math was LOADED and completely unsafe for the brain.
Progressives are smart, they know people will look for lightning rod-type classes named "gender" "interdisciplinary" "intersectional" blah blah other names, and when classes do not have those names then people falsely go into the "sane sounding" classes completely unguarded. When you're unguarded, thinking English is just going to be an essay on Shakespeare, that's when they got you. When you're unguarded, thinking that humanities is just going to study the history of paintings of whatever, that's when they got you.
It's a tactic and it's worked for generations.
And no, the engineering classes are not safe. I knew engineering students. It's all full of social BS too.
bkmk
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