pjmedia | The university will either change soon or simply implode; its present
course is unsustainable and rests on the premise that schizophrenic
deans and presidents can still manage to write and say things to student
cry bullies that they hope their donors and alumni never read or hear.
Colleges
overcharge insolvent students through tuition increases far beyond the
annual rate of inflation—the Ponzi scheme predicated on guaranteed
federal loans that cannot be repaid by poorly educated graduates and
drop-outs, many with little skills or demonstrable education. Obama has
already promised relief to the disabled student debtor: expect that more
amnesties will follow, probably predicated on the basis of race, class,
and gender. In the meantime, the number of disabled indebted students
will mysteriously soar.
In response, the university freely imposes
speech codes, allows racial segregation, and winks at censorship of
texts. It has suspended due process in cases of allegations of sexual
assault, and allows 1930s-like violence (reminiscent of the Brownshirts)
to disrupt public lectures and assemblies—if the agendas of the
protestors profess social awareness. Only the hard sciences and
professional schools in engineering, mathematics, and medicine have for
the moment partially escaped the ruin.
Online colleges are far
cheaper and more concerned with offering skill sets for cash. Their
spread has so far been checked by the lack of general education
enrichment, by the mythical college experience of physically living in
or walking about a beautiful campus, and by the lack of prestige
accorded a for-profit, online diploma. But if the traditional American
college has largely given up on liberal education (due to its deductive
and politicized mandatory –studies courses), if being on a campus can
equate to an unpleasant ordeal of thought policing and mob rule, and if a
diploma from a major university does not suggest that one knows
anything about history, literature, science, or basic facts concerning
our civilization, why would the university need to continue? Cui bono?
It
runs now partly on past momentum, and partly because taxpayers and
alumni donors still subsidize it. If a majority were to feel that their
money only empowers fascism among faculty and administration, and if
they were to conclude that students are not sympathetic in their
indebtedness, but rather increasingly arrogant and ignorant in their
passive aggressions, then they might well simply pull the plug on what
is becoming their Frankenstein monster.
Tribe.
A
multiracial, single-cultural U.S. was an historical fluke. No other
society has ever quite pulled that feat off—not Austria-Hungary, not
Rwanda, not Iraq, not Yugoslavia. To ensure multiracial harmony,
cultural unity (or what is now dismissively written off as the "melting
pot") was essential.
Yet the Obama era has reawakened ethnic
chauvinism and multiculturalism in a way we have never quite seen before
in recent American history. Who would have thought that in 2009, the
racist firebrand, tax-delinquent, anti-Semite, former FBI informant, and
conspiracist Al Sharpton would become the chief presidential advisor on
race, or that the attorney general would refer to blacks as “my people”
and the rest of the country as “cowards,” or that the president would
urge Latinos to “punish our enemies,” or that something chauvinistic
called “Black Lives Matter” would consider a corollary ecumenical “All
Lives Matter” as racist, or that “white privilege” would be a slur
hurled against the largely working white classes by mostly minority and
white elites in academia, politics, journalism and the arts?
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