Diapers For Academics

Let us understand that the only 20th Century system that ever submerged national identities was socialism. Sameness is the automatic outcome of the superimposition of socialism on any geographic area. Yugoslavia was proof enough of that. Capitalism, however, defends and celebrates individual national identities because to do otherwise would damage the cultural action-figure business.

This essay is about academic participation in the recent resistance to world trade agreements, codified as evil in "Empire.". There are two reasons why American academics oppose this concept. The first reason is that free trade lifts all economic boats. Increased economic well-being is not in the best interests of Marxists. People who are well fed and watching a game on their new color TV are sluggish revolutionaries. The second reason is that when the world capitalist revolution is complete, Marxist academics won't be in charge of anybody's life except their own. There is absolutely no fun in life if you can't force people into public transportation and agricultural communes.

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Capitalism's free market is about to destroy modern American public education. Vouchers would allow urban blacks to buy a decent education for their children. This would mean that they would be emancipated from the political slavery of the Democrats. If the Supreme Court, now considering vouchers, dumps the stupid concept of Separation of Church and State, and goes by the actual words of the U.S. Constitution, it will be the third time Republicans have fought for blacks and won. The Civil War and the Civil Rights Act were the other two. (They will be hated for succeeding, again, in this arena. Hated by blacks. No good deed goes unpunished.)

"Empire" sold well, mostly to eastern U.S. intellectuals, when it first came out.

Now, my reaction to "Empire" is that if I had a co-author who was a jailed Italian Marxist, I could sell 40,000 books, too. There must be at least that many Italian Marxists in America. They pass the word to buy the book, thus getting it on some bestseller lists, which gives the work and the author credentials, thus getting them exposure in the media, thus selling more books, and so forth.

But, unfortunately, I do not have a jailed Italian Marxist co-author. And, even if I did, I would hire people with ladders to climb to his cell window and throw buckets of animal waste through the bars. Italians are fine, and I love their current top guy, but I don't like Marxists. If you got to know one, you would soon share my dislike for them because you would soon realize how moronic they are. And, how tiresome.

Yatta, yatta, people's collective yatta, income gap, yatta, fascist business interests yatta, yatta.

In my opinion Marx should be credited as the father of the computer since the result of his life's work was academic artificial intelligence. It is true that in Russia Marxism evolved into really neat giant cardboard missles in the May Day Parade in Moscow, and the metaphorical relationship of these mythical armaments to the giant paper dragons traditionally evident in Chinese public celebrations cannot be denied. But, is this enough to deny diapers to American academics?

Consider their consistent dedication to Marxist theory. When the Soviets gave up the ghost, did they fold up their tents and steal quietly into the desert night? No! They swallowed hard and turned to the second best available morons. They turned to the French!

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It is an exquisite irony that the symbolic heart of the modern French intelligentsia, the transvaluation of all values socialist rag (three stage syncopation in the key of F), should in fact be no more than a re-vamping of an archaic oriental celebratory human centipede in Jurassic reptilian drag, but there it is. It's not dishy, but it's on their dish. The ideological metaphor here reports that academics have not only been knifed, but also have been forked by the man who spooned it out in the first place. But, true to the last, they turn up the volume of their stupidity. They gird their socialist loins and direct their hate at the followers of the Great Spirit, Ronald Reagan, who appeared before the symbolic parapet of the presidium and fearing not even death, ordered the ghost of Marx to take down his wall of lies.

And, wonder of wonders, it collapsed! Reagan had been right all along. Socialism is a cardboard missle, a paper dragon. Like the tyrannical theocracies of the Middle East, it just don't work.

Is it any wonder so many jailed Italian Marxists and Yankee professors are unhappy? Is there no shred of sympathy in your heart for the terminally moronic who have had to turn to the terminally idiotic in a last desperate effort to maintain the dominance of systemic stupidity on the American campus?

And, can you not see the distended frontal lobes of the hollow-eyed American academics as they stand at the ideo-illogical perimeter of the university thought-prison (not far from roads lined with SUVs), staring out at the common wealth and plenty, but required as a matter of dishonor to reject its very existence?

Can you not understand why they hold up their copies of "Empire" to block from their eyes the inscriptions of "veritas" chiseled into the capitals of the fluted stone columns they pass as they go in to misinform a new flock of September sheep? Do you actually expect them to face truth? American academics? You might as well expect Don Quixote to recognize that his opponent is made out of shingles and powers a Dutch cheese-making machine!

Have pity, friends. Urge your representatives in congress to use part of the surplus to subsidize academic diapers for American university Marxists, whether they are jailed Italians or not.

They deserve something for all their anti-American efforts.

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