Here's what some who insist on reclaiming their humanity have done:
Will try to follow up on this.At least some Dartmouth College students have had enough. In a scathing petition on change.org, five leaders in Dartmouth’s student government, joined by more than 1,200 signatories, have called on the administration to return the college to its mission of educating, rather than policing, students. Although the growth of bureaucracy in academia is no secret, it is always sobering to confront the statistics. According to the well-cited petition, non-faculty staff at Dartmouth grew by more than 1,000 people from 1999 to 2004, and in spite of faculty layoffs, that number had increased to 3,497 by 2015. And most administrative staff do not come cheap, especially at prestigious research universities. As the petition points out, this contributes to the institution’s sky-high tuition; the sticker price for a year at Dartmouth is now just below $70,000.But the petition points out that the cost of non-faculty staff is only part of the problem; what many of these people do all day damages the college as a place of learning as well. The petition does not mince words:Instead of making a sincere and concerted attempt to resolve the [cost] issues mentioned above, the Dartmouth administration has spent its time policing student life. Buoyed by the idea that the College should support exclusionary “safe spaces” that act as a barrier against uncomfortable ideas, administrators have assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters. By effectively taking sides in sensitive debates and privileging the perspectives of certain students over others, administrators have crossed the line between maintaining a learning environment that is open to all and forcing their own personal views onto the entire campus. In doing so, they have undermined the value of civility, harmed the free exchange of ideas, and performed a disservice to those students who see their time in college as preparation for success in the real world. [Footnotes omitted.]
Paternalistic Babysitters’ Begone! Dartmouth Students Call for Intellectual Independence
ReplyDeleteBravissimo! But how is this different from the long-haired pinko faggots who resisted 'in loco parentis' back in the day and, good gawd almighty, now get accused of mooing in the pasture with the rest of the cattle?
Perhaps they'll wise-up and demand that the Western canon be taught exclusively. Apparently it really doesn't matter, because, before the economic meltdown in '08, 28 % of our best and brightest were mostly interested in employment in the financial services sector. Where the boys are had morphed into where the bucks are. It's money for nothing, but the chicks aren't at all free with that pedigree degree.
ReplyDeleteThese kids are the end product of that counterculture shit that the pinkos from back in the day initiated
ReplyDeleteOK, since you alone are the arbiter of good taste and just causes. But I read that you said these rebels were resisting being turned into cattle. Mostly we were resisting having our asses grabbed out of high school and thrown into a foreign jungle to fight for freedom. Most males in my class who did so are already dead, from Agent Orange exposure, not direct combat. Our government had no respect for the fauna and the forests either. Dow Chemical, of course, loved the crap out of their "opportunity."
ReplyDeleteThe counterculture has its roots in the academic New Left, guys like William Appleton Williams - who introduced the concept of moral equivalence, the idea that there wasn't any significant moral difference between the Soviet Union and the United States, that they were just the two superpowers each strategizing for maximum hegemony, and Eugene Genovese - who, in 1965, said straight up that he hoped North Vietnam took over the South.
ReplyDeleteThe take-it-to-the-streets radicals, such as Hayden and Rennie Davis and Bill Ayers, learned at the feet of that previous generation.
Noone I ever ran into back in the day identified with or agreed with the take-it-to the streets radicals. We were more in tune with Thoreau and just learning, peacefully, of course the beer and the broads and the dope cats like Ainslinger, Nixon & Reagan who insisted we were all evil. Civil disobedience worked. The draft was abolished so only those who freely chose could go off to have their heads shaved and eat mountains of indoc like cattle to become the Trump supporters of today Those who left the country during that time to avoid the draft were later pardoned. Too bad vegetarianism is commie. We got a whole lot of fat asses in our society that could use such a diet, God be damned, I guess.
ReplyDeleteSo your reduction of us all, many of us individualists, if not quite narcissists just yet, into a bunch of commies who hated America is just the sensationalized version of it all. We've been over all the Nam shit before until you start crying about Obama's visit there this week, 7 years after you first flipped-out over his visit with Chavez, now dead as his country now appears to be. I love seeing Commie nations fail. Don't you?
ReplyDeleteBy 1960, the North had very clearly violated the 1954 agreement to keep its hands off the south. The US, as the guarantor to the world of a firewall against Communist expansion, knew it had to do something. That is why we started forming teams of CIA agents, Navy Seals, and Delta Force specialists to insert small teams into the area and find out what the hell was going on. Also advising the South Vietnamese army. And finally, in early 1965, we had to overtly and rather massively get directly involved. The basic purpose was supremely moral.
ReplyDeleteIke pulled us out of our anti-Communist intervention in Korea to little fanfare. War is never supremely moral.
ReplyDelete” The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.”--Thomas Jefferson
And I didn't know a soul who thought this about that, back in da day either, so don't try to lump all the peaceniks into a dastardly bundle like this either:
ReplyDelete"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at." - Left-wing "anti-war" terrorist Bill Ayers in 1969