Colleges as institutions of higher oppression?

 

 
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
 
“I have a lot of big ideas; they just don’t seem to work out,” Will Rogers once wrote. “There must be a bit of college professor in me somewhere.”
We always knew that colleges were very suspect when it came to actual freedom of thought and speech.
Not long ago going onto a campus was like going on to Mars devoid of anything remotely human but a lot of rules about what can be said and not said.
The idea is we need to create safe spaces for everybody and nobody should ever confront a thought that disagrees with them or makes them feel bad.
So pronouns in the English language seemed to be avoided as where a lot of other words necessary to make the language work.
This week the University of Massachusetts at Amherst suspended students because they did not wear masks -- when they were off campus
Obviously some woke student clearly reported them since even the overrated, high tuition Universities can't afford to hire Gestapo over to watch all the students all of the time and must rely on finks like these to do their dirty work.
Teaching kids to turn in other kids seems to be the primary function of our institutions of higher learners.
Professors on these universities who are constantly raising flags of warning about potential fascism; obviously they know what fascism is first-hand since they are engaged in it.
There is a reason why whenever there is a radical shift in the nation the intellectuals are the first to lose their heads because they incite this kind of rhetoric that inspires would be reaction.
More importantly the universities are teaching compliance in a way that is really radical in that it makes people less able to deal with change and alternative views rather than more so.
But then it's clear that we are recreating culture in a way that's very comforting for those who rely on history to actually be accurate
George Orwell back in the 1930s and early 40s predicted this kind of insanity,  noting that even then we were watching the radical left and the radical right rewriting history in a way that there is no such thing as history.
So it is clear that the college's need to either tear up their existing textbooks or create new ones that are going to tell us all what the new culture is going to look like so that students don't get suspended thinking they have freedom of choice on or off campus
Will Durant and his and his wife's amazing work pointed to the fact that much of what we call democracy is an illusion, something clearly proven by the last election in which we watched a political coup take place and all of the institutions that would normally prevent it, throwing up their hands to surrender.
Durant went to the same Woke schools in Greenage Village that pathetic Howard Zinn did, only came out of the school with a bit more common sense, understand that if you don’t build history to be accurate and protect culture, you get no history or culture to speak out, just a mob with pitchforks and torches.
Durant didn't quite predict the collapse of the college system the way Orwell did, but he might as well have.
These radicals on campus may be good at pontificating about the real world of which they know nothing, but they also do not realize that politics is like physics, there is always an opposite and sometimes even more power reaction to anything they do today.
The danger with the colleges is that they are determined to destroy all the safeguards that prevent mob rule on the phony belief that they can create the narrative that will last the test of time when no narrative does.
Ultimately what they do to suppress people's freedom of speech today will be used against them in the future.
That is the ultimate Danger.
 
 
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