Excerpted from a long piece by Victor Davis Hanson, about how the Left bastardized and indoctrinated our former institutes of learning into Progressive Boot Camps. Churning out students, not schooled in Classic Western Liberalism, but as Anti-Western ideals victims.
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Generations trapped by debt foisted on them by rapacious college Administrations hungry for Federal money ready for the taking.
Their product used to be well-grounded adults skilled in thinking analytically about the world from the basis of our history and philosophy. It has been reduced to twenty-somethings that act like strutting children; Karenified SJWs at best and Antifa/Marxist thugs at the worst.
It ends this way (emphasis mine):
Today what is college for?
To teach induction and empiricism, and empower such skills through a common body of knowledge, with shared classical referents of science, mathematics, literature, history, language, and philosophy? To ensure that a student’s future stays inquisitive, enhancing his contribution to his nation? To inculcate a sense of civics and social morality that emphasizes the values of free speech and expression, individualism, tolerance, public service and constitutional government? To seek and reinforce commonalities between citizens of a shared republic?
Progressive Boot Camps
The implicit directive of undergraduate education is so often deductively to enhance progressive values that center on a common but unquestioned core: radical restructuring of the economy to fight “climate change,” the shift from free-market capitalism to state redistributionism, equality defined not as parity in opportunity but in result, the view that the Constitution is fossilized and an impediment to the moral arc of history, the surety that values are mostly race, class, and gender constructs and do not reflect eternal truths of unchanging human nature, identity politics above all, abortion on demand, and real doubt that the American project, now and in the past, has been a force for good.This is the unquestioned creed of the university, its faculty advocacies, its students’ acquiescence, and the subtext of its themes in internal communiques. If anyone doubts, try the thought experiment of entering a university and throughout those four years suggesting that a heating planet may be primarily a result of age-old and cyclical natural phenomena, or that capitalism has brought far more out of poverty than statism, or praise the Second Amendment, or the melting pot over the salad bowl. Support a ban on partial or late-term abortion, and express faith that America has been good without having to be perfect. At each juncture, a student would not only be questioned but likely would find himself at a disadvantage academically and socially ostracized.
Something went wrong with the rapidly expanding university in the 1960s during the affluence and leisure of the postwar boom. And the new 21st century, high-tech, globalized campus has now made that mess it inherited dangerous.
You DO now want to go and read the beginning and the end at American Greatness and read the larger portion to see how we “got heah from theah” from one of America’s leading military historians and political commenters. It explains a lot of how we went from the Greatest Generation to the Snowflake Coven and Witless Wonders that are so dangerous to the rest of us because they were failed by our Indoctrination Education system.
The New Left, back in the 60s, figured out that being militant and bombing the rest of America and committing murder was not an effective way to change hearts and minds even as mass protests against the Viet Nam war were on their side. So, right in line with Italian Socialist Antonio Gramsci’s ideas, they went “long term” and burrowed into Academia knowing that once they had a foothold, their ideas were more dangerous than the guns and explosives they wielded at their start.
Second time was the charm and after 60 years of subverting the purpose of Academia, they have done what they set out to do – weaken America such that it will fall in on itself…as we are seeing, albeit in slow motion but “political gravity” is accelerating that, now in how little our younger generations know.
We weren’t vigilant.
(H/T: Red State)
