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Dependency Nutures Professors of Frivolity — Harry Potter Elected O

wizards_for_oParental Warning: Do not send your college seeking son or daughter to the University of Vermont. Despite being a decadent wasteland specializing in solipsism that many of today’s youngsters find irresistible, there is also one Poli-sci Professor, Anthony Gierzynski, who has completely wasted his talents because he is either morally unhinged or mildly retarded.

The bureaucracy has its sinecures, and more and more academia is following the bureaucratic paradigm and producing more frivolity than substance. The work products of some academic “research” are useless. Imagine, all the unknown mysteries churning around the planet and this incurious lazy professor wrote an “…82-page, peer-reviewed book. … called “Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation.” to explain electoral results.

Despite reams of data, dating back at least decades, that illustrate the trend that most post pubescents vote Democrat and liberal seems to have been lost on the poor professor. So, he took it on himself to explain the landslide of youth voting for Obama in 2008 and found that it was due to magic. Harry Potter’s magic to be exact. TheDailyCaller reports that he claims…

“…that the seven Harry Potter books “played a small but not insignificant role” in the election of President Barack Obama.

“Among the people he surveyed, 60 percent who had read Rowling’s books said they voted for Obama in 2008. A whopping 83 percent who read the books had unfavorable views of the Bush administration.”

So it turns out he’s looking to J.K. Rowling to explain it. It couldn’t have been Obama being the first black President in United States history or how wildly unpopular his opponents party was or anything like that. No, it was due to a white British author—how racist!

The idea that taxpayers are funding a position that studies movies and the effect they have upon elections and produces this flummery is beyond preposterous and ludicrous, it’s an affront. What a waste of money.

If this guy has half a brain and could be managing a convenient store, I say we’re one convenient store manager short.

Quite frankly he egregiously offends more than the surfer that just wants to surf all day and live on food stamps. They both don’t really live, but at least the surfer admits it. The surfer sloughs off the day, maybe smoking a bit of weed, boozing it up, and then catching some tasty waves.  At least he’s not pretending to be some academic challenging students minds only to deliver some slipshod bunk for a gazillion dollars a semester. That’s not just an empty hollow life without challenging  the human spirit, that’s deception and a charade bordering on outright theft.

The sad part is many Americans experience this sort of cultural decadent narcissism. It permeates our schools, music, movies; it’s in the very air that we inhale, and it encourages this sort of dependence seeking–it feeds the dependency culture. Dependent on someone else to do the work that each of us should be doing for ourselves. It’s what we require and what a civil society requires. More and more of that is placed onto someone else to do and the state is picking up the slack – which never ends well and historically flows right into all manners of villainy.

Simply looking for cossetted survival and not being challenged is a wretched sapping of the soul, snuffing the life breath of the human spirit. It reminds me of Burke’s “flies of summer”, that without something larger to live for man can just be the whirring, buzzing parasite flitting around the swamp sucking off the host until squashed or suffocated by his slothful, gluttonous girth.

That’s the execrable thing about statism/collectivism is that it encourages this dependence and what it does to the human spirit. Living is not simply weed, booze and creating “peer reviewed books” that are simply fustian engorged pamphlets of folly. Its symptoms are easy to spot in the surfer suckling food stamps for debauchery; they’re easy to spot in the slums of a Democrat run city; they’re not so easy to spot when it’s a professor that clearly has some sort of brain but has decided to squander it on academic twaddle for one reason or another. And the reason I suspect is that he’s dependent. He wants his tax paid tenure– as most profs do– and to do the minimum to eke it out.  What he’s doing with it is the shame. And loathsome.

Dear Professor, if you ever stumble upon this little blurb on your sad vocational direction, please do me, yourself, and your fellow man a favor and consider challenging your mental capacities to produce something more useful. Your waste-of-time book that concludes that the Harry Potter series, “…played a small but not insignificant role” in the 2008 election is asinine prolix that no one takes seriously. Please apply your talents to helping your fellow man. Try running a convenient store and employing people. At least then you’ll be helping the people of Vermont and not fleecing them.

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