In an entirely unsurprising turn of events, Claudine Gay has transitioned from her role as Harvard’s president to become, merely, one of the tenured faculty.
The greatest force against the lunatic mind cancer of woke delusion is utter derision. Relentless unafraid mocking. Declare that the Emperor is a naked mentally twisted dangerous pervert.
Yes, the sooner the non-STEM academia self-destructs the better. In the digital age, anyone who WANTS to educate themselves about the humanities and social pseudo-sciences can do so. All it takes is the will to put in the hard work. Maintaining a pointless and useless academy of spoilt-brat group-thinkers has become almost entirely counter to any advance of the goal of an educated citizenry. Parents dream of their kids going to university so's they will come out more EDUCATED and ENLIGHTENED. But now they typically emerge from their 3+ years at university more IGNORANT and BIGOTED.You could almost say that the ‘skill’ that a 'higher education' in the humanities and social sciences now gives is learning how to articulate the most currently fashionable beliefs whilst insulating your natural faculties from the intrusion of any common sense.
But I am sceptical of any solution to this mess..... at least in the foreseeable. In order to rescue the universities to sanity and enlightenment, you would have to clear out 80+% of the sheep-dipped groupthink lefties that now work in them. And you would struggle to replace them with genuinely educated, independent-minded replacements. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
Any solution will have to include cutting off their money. As we recently saw, money still talks. If you look at a database of university payrolls, you will see the possibilities for a solution.
I also believe money is key, but I fear the elites have that covered because they are in the process of engineering a financial crisis like none before. When the dust settles from that, they will be still richer and the rest of us will, again, wonder what happened.
A good system isn't built by including, but by excluding.
Try the principles of inclusion in your vegetable patch, washing machine, chicken run, aquarium or whatever.
What work best? Structured order where the wrong thing is kept out, by force as necessary, or no order where anything that wants to make a place for itself is allowed to?
Great rant, witty sarcasm, excellent euphemisms, but we really need a strategy to fight this destruction of western civilization, before we revert back to wandering bands of hunter gatherers.
I predict that her near million dollar salary will come into question quickly, Harvard is already bleeding, the jabs are killing their big money base, the parents of those who send their kids there.
The Left takes care of their own. Once you sell your soul to them you are set for life ..... if you have the right ‘qualifications’ and hold to the Party line, no matter how far it deviates from truth and reality.
Even if you make a serious mistake, they will cover for you and you will eventually end up in a better position.....
Correct, but it doesn’t seem to happen often. At least in the US, if a prominent lefty does something wrong then they usually get a timeout, removed from public attention for a few years, and then they come back with little real damage done to their reputation or lifestyle.
"Promoted one step to the side" is an idiom here for that kind of thing.
Bear in mind, the ones you here about from the outside are the ones media (handlers) have decided you should hear about.
Otherwise, it's done quietly. The eff-up gets their sinecure and early retirement for shutting up, and the machine rolls on. It's when the eff-up won't shut it and lump it (at first) media gets the go-ahead for a story.
It's something you learn as a journalist: don't just publish a story right away. Think it through, what kind of leverage it can give you to sit on it. Not blackmail, just a nudge, maybe getting choice tip-offs in exchange.
Eventually, you have a press-corps embedded and enmeshed with politicians and celebrities and businessleaders, handling gossip and managing leverage for their masters, which changes as the tide does - all the time.
It may be a means of reaching the goal, but the real goal is the destruction or radical transformation of western civilization into something completely unrecognizable to today’s population
The radical Left is the enemy of everything that the West has built.
If you need proof, all you need to do is read their words..... they aren’t shy about their goals or what they are willing to do to achieve them.
And we’d better start finding ways to stop them, because they mean it and they will never give up.....
I think we need to start again. Sack everyone. Make the re-hiring conditions solely merit based and have some kind of independent assessment of that hiring process. Some will be re-hired, but hopefully many will not - and more capable (and sane) academics will replace them.
* if you notice some “duplicative language” here, my only excuse is that plagiarism jokes never get old! And here’s the thing I like about the Gay scandal. She managed to make me laugh about genocide! How many people can do that? The fact that the story got more and more ludicrous is just icing on the cake. Gay needs to dream bigger than Harvard prez— she should really go into politics! (She’s also a good lesson for all of us flimsy white women who apologize when someone steps on our toes— second only maybe to that Las Vegas guy who assaulted the judge sentencing him. We’ve evidently got all this white privilege— why don’t we start acting the part?)
I'm horribly late to the party, but this. "You may recall an interview in which the musician John Mellencamp (white) made the claim to Bill Maher that only maybe 1% - 2% of black people in America today have it better than the black slaves of the past."
We have entered a time--and maybe we were already there, and I just didn't know it--when people who should know better, like a LOT of intelligent Black people, hear this kind of drivel and give it the benefit of the doubt. That versus laughing the speaker out of the room! Kendi is an example of someone spouting nonsense that would have, just a few years back, been laughed at. I have no answers, but it's damned depressing sometimes.
The greatest force against the lunatic mind cancer of woke delusion is utter derision. Relentless unafraid mocking. Declare that the Emperor is a naked mentally twisted dangerous pervert.
You wily wabbit.
Wascally too
Yes, the sooner the non-STEM academia self-destructs the better. In the digital age, anyone who WANTS to educate themselves about the humanities and social pseudo-sciences can do so. All it takes is the will to put in the hard work. Maintaining a pointless and useless academy of spoilt-brat group-thinkers has become almost entirely counter to any advance of the goal of an educated citizenry. Parents dream of their kids going to university so's they will come out more EDUCATED and ENLIGHTENED. But now they typically emerge from their 3+ years at university more IGNORANT and BIGOTED.You could almost say that the ‘skill’ that a 'higher education' in the humanities and social sciences now gives is learning how to articulate the most currently fashionable beliefs whilst insulating your natural faculties from the intrusion of any common sense.
But I am sceptical of any solution to this mess..... at least in the foreseeable. In order to rescue the universities to sanity and enlightenment, you would have to clear out 80+% of the sheep-dipped groupthink lefties that now work in them. And you would struggle to replace them with genuinely educated, independent-minded replacements. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
Any solution will have to include cutting off their money. As we recently saw, money still talks. If you look at a database of university payrolls, you will see the possibilities for a solution.
I also believe money is key, but I fear the elites have that covered because they are in the process of engineering a financial crisis like none before. When the dust settles from that, they will be still richer and the rest of us will, again, wonder what happened.
mandatory jabs will fix this.
A good system isn't built by including, but by excluding.
Try the principles of inclusion in your vegetable patch, washing machine, chicken run, aquarium or whatever.
What work best? Structured order where the wrong thing is kept out, by force as necessary, or no order where anything that wants to make a place for itself is allowed to?
Mediocrity has always been the goal.
Great rant, witty sarcasm, excellent euphemisms, but we really need a strategy to fight this destruction of western civilization, before we revert back to wandering bands of hunter gatherers.
At this point in time I’d prefer the hunter gatherer life, at least there would be no law to protect them.
I predict that her near million dollar salary will come into question quickly, Harvard is already bleeding, the jabs are killing their big money base, the parents of those who send their kids there.
Not a chance. Hell will freeze over first.
The Left takes care of their own. Once you sell your soul to them you are set for life ..... if you have the right ‘qualifications’ and hold to the Party line, no matter how far it deviates from truth and reality.
Even if you make a serious mistake, they will cover for you and you will eventually end up in a better position.....
...until the people above you, below you and around you feel they stand more to gain by un-personing you.
Correct, but it doesn’t seem to happen often. At least in the US, if a prominent lefty does something wrong then they usually get a timeout, removed from public attention for a few years, and then they come back with little real damage done to their reputation or lifestyle.
And sometimes they are actually better off.....
"Promoted one step to the side" is an idiom here for that kind of thing.
Bear in mind, the ones you here about from the outside are the ones media (handlers) have decided you should hear about.
Otherwise, it's done quietly. The eff-up gets their sinecure and early retirement for shutting up, and the machine rolls on. It's when the eff-up won't shut it and lump it (at first) media gets the go-ahead for a story.
It's something you learn as a journalist: don't just publish a story right away. Think it through, what kind of leverage it can give you to sit on it. Not blackmail, just a nudge, maybe getting choice tip-offs in exchange.
Eventually, you have a press-corps embedded and enmeshed with politicians and celebrities and businessleaders, handling gossip and managing leverage for their masters, which changes as the tide does - all the time.
I don’t think that mediocrity is the goal.
It may be a means of reaching the goal, but the real goal is the destruction or radical transformation of western civilization into something completely unrecognizable to today’s population
The radical Left is the enemy of everything that the West has built.
If you need proof, all you need to do is read their words..... they aren’t shy about their goals or what they are willing to do to achieve them.
And we’d better start finding ways to stop them, because they mean it and they will never give up.....
I think we need to start again. Sack everyone. Make the re-hiring conditions solely merit based and have some kind of independent assessment of that hiring process. Some will be re-hired, but hopefully many will not - and more capable (and sane) academics will replace them.
* if you notice some “duplicative language” here, my only excuse is that plagiarism jokes never get old! And here’s the thing I like about the Gay scandal. She managed to make me laugh about genocide! How many people can do that? The fact that the story got more and more ludicrous is just icing on the cake. Gay needs to dream bigger than Harvard prez— she should really go into politics! (She’s also a good lesson for all of us flimsy white women who apologize when someone steps on our toes— second only maybe to that Las Vegas guy who assaulted the judge sentencing him. We’ve evidently got all this white privilege— why don’t we start acting the part?)
I'm horribly late to the party, but this. "You may recall an interview in which the musician John Mellencamp (white) made the claim to Bill Maher that only maybe 1% - 2% of black people in America today have it better than the black slaves of the past."
We have entered a time--and maybe we were already there, and I just didn't know it--when people who should know better, like a LOT of intelligent Black people, hear this kind of drivel and give it the benefit of the doubt. That versus laughing the speaker out of the room! Kendi is an example of someone spouting nonsense that would have, just a few years back, been laughed at. I have no answers, but it's damned depressing sometimes.
One of the best books, written by probably Germany's sharpest mind, explains this and it all.
In German, but if you translate the reviews to English, you get the picture. https://www.amazon.de/Land-ohne-Mut-Wissenschaft-Rechtsordnung/dp/3982277167