They were big back in the Sixties. At least, the reports of them seemed to be everywhere. But there followed a period of relative calm. University-based radicalism retreated from the public eye to a large degree. It found the classroom a homier venue.
I needn’t provide you any links, Gentle Reader. You can find them for yourself. Make a point of perusing the photos. Note the similarity in costuming between so many of these “student protestors” and the vermin of AntiFa, BlackBloc, and HAMAS and Hezbollah. Keffiyehs are everywhere. So are black masks and black garb. Think there’s a message in there?
Young adults – late teens through the early twenties – are the members of our species most easily whipped into a frenzy. For one thing, they have very active glands. For another, they believe themselves to be the saviors of Mankind, despite not knowing shit about anything. And a terrifying percentage of college instructors play to their vanities. Why? Unclear.
I can’t imagine a better place than the university for an outside agitator to ply his Soros-funded trade. Thousands of ignorant, easily agitated kids with delusions of world-historical stature! If there’s an Athene Academy among them – intellectually speaking, not the genital stuff – I don’t know of it.
Really, the universities would be much quieter places if the students would expend their energies fucking, the protests of bluenosed Americans notwithstanding. Maybe those condom and lubricant dispensers in dormitory bathrooms aren’t a bad thing after all. Now what can we do to get the kiddies to use them? Free Proactiv and teeth whiteners?
I’ve been saying this for a while now: the universities are doomed. They should be walled off: no one allowed out. You want in? It’s a one-way deal, Bucko. Food and sanitary supplies are airdropped once a week. Enjoy your “liberation.”
No, I’m not feeling poorly. I’m feeling prescient. For a good thirty years, the evidence of metastasized ideological cancer among the universities has been plainly visible. If it was ever possible to save them from themselves, that time has passed.
Legislators: Defund the state systems.
Donors: Pull the purse strings tight.
Parents: Teach your children well – in particular, that if they’re really serious about learning, they’ll do more of it by spending four hours in the library five days per week than they would at any American “institution of higher education.” And that you’ll be damned rather than see a penny of your money go to any such pesthole.
On this subject, there’s nothing more to say. Perhaps I’ll be back later with something cheerier.
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This is no accident or serendipity. The left, activists on the left have taken over universities. While the group of leftists are diverse they cooperate/conspire to have a greater power. The gays work with the Marxists/communists even if they don’t endorse socialism. The feminist work with Islamists even knowing that Islam grossly mistreats women. It is one big left wing party of useful idiots and anarchists whose only common goal is to destroy the U.S.
It’s easier and more fun to take a tragic view of life. It’s a better method of self-dramatizing. Everybody would rather star in Hamlet than in ‘Three’s Company’. If you want to understand the psychology of politics, just look at teenagers. I mean, teenagers are expert at self-dramatization. And so of course they’re picking problems. You can’t self-dramatize a joy or a joke or a good mood. Nothing cures anomie, whatever that may be – we have no idea what that word means: we might as well say we suffer from “brigadoon”. We don’t know what it means, and neither do the French – nothing cures that sort of unfocused upsetness like duty, responsibility, hard work. If you’ve got places you’ve got to be, things you’ve got to do, and people you’ve got to take care of, you don’t have time for that sort of adolescent mewling. You find very few Kurt Cobain fans among the starving people of the world. — P.J. O’Rourke
Yeah, vermin of a feather flock together. Are the “parents” of these creatures concerned yet? Are the alumni from those universities still giving them money? Has anybody noticed that it’s the women protesters with the most mouth and who shriek the loudest when the cops haul them off? They think their phones give them super powers.
It’s been going on for a while but now they don’t care who knows it.