By Professor Doom
Youtube is such
an awesome resource for knowledge, it’s a shame they’re consigning
videos with “alternative” points of view to concentration camps, no longer
easily accessible to the public. It really is amazing what those alternative
videos have accomplished, literally dissecting false media narratives in real
time, completely shutting down the worst of the lies our political class and
mainstream media try to foist upon us.
If Youtube had
been as operational before the first Iraq war as it is today, the American
public would have had reams of information regarding the ridiculous “babies
ripped from incubators by Iraqi soldiers” hoax, would have been told repeatedly
how Saddam Hussein was a CIA asset for decades and asked permission from the US
(cluelessly granted) before invading Kuwait, would have been told the truth of
any number of lies that were drumming up war fever before we attacked Iraq the
first time around (“in retaliation for 9-11” being perhaps the most ridiculous
lie that could have been easily dispelled). But I digress. Youtubes’ days as a source of “alternative” information are drawing to a close…though you can
still find the information if you know where to look.
I saw a short
video with a title I liked, so I had to click on it:
Regular readers
of my blog know my take on how this happened (the quick summary: unscrupulous
administrators, eager for every student loan dollar and not caring a bit about
students, allowed bogus courses to fill the catalog, racking up sales but
exploiting kids as they come out of high school). I am, of course, open to
alternative opinions, so let’s address some of the things he had to say in this
5 minute video:
“One of the
things that happens when a totalitarian government takes over is the
universities are cleaned up.”
--I don’t have a
transcript, so I may be off a word or two.
It’s no secret
that on many campuses, a “cleanup” has occurred. What happened to the kid who
wrote the Google memo happened to conservative faculty en masse, years earlier.
Oh, we saw the bulldozers and tanks coming, and I assure you some faculty, at
least, tried to stand up and stop it…it accomplished nothing. If you dared to
question the madness, you were removed. Even if you had tenure, life was made
so miserable that you’d leave on your own. I saw it enough with my own eyes.
Even if you wanted to stay, you still had to attend “re-education camps,”
interminable multiculturalism seminars that, I promise the gentle reader, are
extremely painful and insulting. There are still flare-ups by remaining faculty
who’ve tolerated all they can, and how
these events are treated today serves as examples for what happened a few
decades ago, before information could be so quickly disseminated.
“…new
subjects in the university, in which the pursuit of truth seems to be secondary
to something else…political conformity.”
I certainly agree
about these weird new subjects which are clearly more about ideology than
academics, but I feel the professor neglects the college coursework on Game of
Thrones, Gilligan’s Island, Sex, Sexuality, Sexualism, Sexual Activity, Deviant
Sex, and other courses whose titles suggest more about appealing to student interest than pursuit of knowledge.
“…perhaps it can be
talked about freely in this room, but you can’t talk about it freely in
America…”
He’s
obviously knowledgeable, but I do wish he’d addressed how what he just said
explains the growth of these courses. Actual professors, actual academics, have
been silenced on campus, and this silence is itself a factor in how all fake
courses made it onto the curriculum. We had no way to stop it.
“…conformity
to an orthodoxy takes precedence over an intellectual method…”
He’s referencing
Women’s Studies, and other ideological courses in the above, and while I again
concede there’s truth in it…it’s only a sliver of reality. Open up the blinders
a bit and you’ll see our campuses have wide swaths of coursework little
different than what
students already “learned” in the 6th grade. It’s not
about ideology nearly as much as it is about sales and growth. Gotta pay for
those administrative raises somehow, after all, and there’s always another Vice
President of Diversity position opening up for a friend of the Governor, at
$225,000 a year.
“We are
going through a time when truth itself is being marginalized from academic
scholarship…”
Again, this is
true. The recent big gender
studies hoax, along with strong evidence that huge amounts of published
research is completely bogus, certainly reinforce his point but…how did it
happen? What changed?
It used to be
that research was judged by faculty in the same department, and departments
were their own little communities. The only way a fraud could operate in a
department was if the whole department was fraudulent, and that’s tough to pull
off. Departments aren’t communities anymore, and many campuses don’t have
departments at all. Instead, you have a Dean wh controls the hiring of dozens
of adjuncts who rarely even talk to each other.
When it comes time
to look at the research, the Dean has no interest or understanding of that
research. She simply counts the number of published papers, and if it’s high
enough, you get kudos. What’s actually in those papers is irrelevant—half of
published papers are never read by anyone, 90% are never cited. Just get published, past that it’s
irrelevant, and that’s what Admin makes the job requirement. If you don’t get
published, you’re fired. We have published papers with 1,000 authors now, with the
record being over 5,000 authors for a 33 page paper…admin just
can’t discern how this stuff works. Back when admin and faculty were the same people,
it was possible, but those days are long over.
And it’s supposed
to be a puzzle why the pursuit of truth disappeared from campus?
“You can
turn all the subjects of the university upside down, and rearrange them as part
of the agenda of liberation…”
Again, he’s
correct here, as old academic courses like “English literature” are tossed, and
replaced with “Women’s English literature,” with a clear ideological bent
superseding academics. Absolutely, I’ve seen many courses like that (mercifully,
there hasn’t been a “Women’s calculus” course yet…), and once you’ve added a
few dozen such courses to the catalogue, you may as well just form an Institute
of Women’s Studies on campus, to fill with highly paid vice-presidents.
These courses do have
a veneer of academics to them, but are mostly about ideological nonsense. Once
you have enough of them, then you start to get those “experts in nonsense” to
preside over the fake coursework.
I totally
concede there is some truth to what he’s saying, but I still think I provide a
broader view of the reality of many universities today. Having acknowledged
that our campuses are filled with fake coursework, even if he and I disagree on
how it happened, I’m certain we agree it needs to stop.
But what’s
sustaining all the fake classes? Once again, the student loan scam is a big
factor. We just wouldn’t have the money for campus palaces filled with Vice
Presidents of Women and Diversity without the student loans.
And so here I am,
once again, doing what I can to educate the public, because it’s their money
paying for all this fraud, and hopefully once enough people learn about the
reality we can do what must be done:
End the student
loan scam.
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