By Professor Doom
I’ve been slow to
accept that our higher education system is turning into, or already is, a mass
indoctrination system. Focusing more on the falling standards and mass academic
fraud, I’ve perhaps missed that these were simply side effects of the political
goal of indoctrination (and thus education is of no importance) rather than the
side effects of the unchecked greed of our “leaders” in higher ed (who do not deem education important).
But as I look more
and more into the current state of higher education, I’ve shifted more to the
idea that our campuses follow the new ideology of edu-fascism, which merges the
interests of the ideologues and plunderers which all too often seem to control
our campuses hand in hand.
I’ve focused
mostly on the greed aspect of edu-fascism, but a recent article talks of the
rising “democratic socialist” movement, a consequence of the other aspect. Even
followers of this movement cannot explain the difference between “democratic
socialism” and pure socialism—I suspect even the phrase “democratic feces”
sounds better than simply “feces,” as well. There’s good reason there cannot be
a difference worth explaining: sooner or later the person at the top will be
voted absolute power (Hi Hitler! Yes, he was democratically elected, and a
socialist), and then we’ll just have socialism in any event. Nearly
100,000,000 human beings died under the jackboots of this ideology, so I’m
pretty much against it, no matter how sweet it sounds.
Despite the clear
problems with this ideology, the democratic socialist movement is gaining
followers, followers who must be simply ignorant of the reality of what they’re
supporting. A recent article offers a suggestion from whence these ignorant
followers come:
I’d never even
heard the phrase “democratic socialism” until the rise of Bernie Sanders, who
emerged from one of his $10,000,000 homes in the last election to tell me I
need to give up some of my wealth so he can hand out stuff for free to get
votes. Alas, this ridiculous idea didn’t end with the last election any more
than Hillary’s political career did, and recently a democratic socialist
candidate even beat an incumbent Democrat (an extraordinary achievement!).
A commenter
gives a helpful description of what Democratic Socialism is all about:
Democratic Socialism: Everybody always gets everything
they ever wanted, handed to them free at an all-you-can-eat buffet. A concept
conceived and endorsed by people who don't actually work for a living and
espoused by rich politicians and "ministers" who never actually
worked for a living. They can't explain exactly who pays for all this carefree
fun and frivolity, instead relying on shouting and meltdowns to deflect such
practical nonsense. It all sounds great to the young and ignorant.
Where’d the
candidate get all those votes from anyway?
The Democratic
Socialists of America has grown rapidly of late, recently surpassing 40,000
members, and our universities are largely responsible for its newfound appeal
to young people.
I’ve covered
before that Karl Marx
is among the most popular authors in higher ed today,
dominating not just political science, but also sociology, economics, and
others. Much like I concede the works of Charles Manson are worth study, I
acknowledge Marx belongs on campus…but it’s bizarre that he’s this ridiculously
popular, and unlike (I would hope) Manson, he’s viewed a great hero instead of
a monster:
In myriad, often
subtle ways, leftist professors exploit their positions of authority to
"develop" new socialist acolytes by presenting students with a narrow
framework of "acceptable" ideas that disguises socialism as virtuous.
I disagree with
the claim here, but only a bit, and just the word “subtle.” In many courses,
the professor makes it clear that disagreement leads to failure, agreement
leads to an easy “A.” Similarly, faculty who dare to challenge the socialist
narrative are fired or, nowadays, never hired in the first place. Schools now
advertise positions where holding political views is part of the job
description, and evidence of political bias in hiring is so blatant that it is
utterly preposterous to call these ways “subtle.”
As students are spoon-fed leftist
talking points in class, reaffirmed by the overrepresentation of the left in
social media, they begin to develop their own ideology under the framework set
by their professors and shallow political awareness through social media.
Please understand
when Marx is covered in class, he’s covered in a “pure” way; students are
simply told how wonderful the ideas are, eg, “from everyone according to his
abilities…”, and seldom, if ever, are the consequences of his ideas discussed,
eg, “under socialism, everyone suddenly loses all their abilities, because
everyone realize any abilities they claim to have will be taken from them and
use of their abilities will benefit someone else…” More importantly, of course,
only the Marxist theory is discussed, and the empirical evidence, such as mass starvation
because nobody has the ability to grow food, ignored.
After 4 to 6
years of being forced to nod in agreement every time socialist ideas are
presents, and never being asked to think through the consequences of the ideas,
it’s little wonder indeed that universities are swelling the ranks of believers
in socialism.
The decline of religion has allowed for
the rise of secularism…
My time in public
school is not so distant that I’ve forgotten that I, too, was trained in
socialism, and this does lead to a minor disagreement with the article: yes,
the universities are providing voting-age followers of democratic socialism,
but the public schools indoctrinated them well, as my own memories remind me
from time to time.
Another part of my
public school training was that “only stupid people believe in religion,” and I
was trained to view “those religious kids” as some sort of freaks. Much like
with my socialism indoctrination, I’ve overcome this as well, and I find even
people who only mouth the precepts of Christianity to be far better than
atheists.
Yes, there are
good atheists, but so many atheists I’ve met are just…not so nice.
More
importantly, there’s clearly a human need to worship something greater than
what we can immediately touch, since every culture and civilization does so in some form. I completely respect atheists for being
skeptical of any religion, but so many of these guys simply worship the
government instead, and have an unbreakable faith that this time around, the government, through socialism, can be used as
a force for good. I’ve tried to reason
with such people, many times, by using the empirical evidence of what’s
happened every single time socialism is tried but…there’s just no breaking that
secular faith.
I’m not convinced
universities are responsible for the rise of secularism, however, and point my
fingers at the pubic (i.e., government) schools for that.
They haven't
seen socialism in action
This ultimately is
the issue, since the empirical evidence is overwhelming on this point. And,
indeed, our universities take the blame here, as instead of teaching academic
courses like history (a great source of empirical evidence!), the edu-fascism of
our campuses has guided our students to the much cheaper to teach and far more
ideologically friendly indoctrination courses, which are mandatory on many
campuses now, replacing academics as a core part of an education.
Ideologues knee deep in their own
garbage are unable to understand the true evil that is socialism. The far left
is a much greater threat to our nation than any neo-Nazi group will ever be,
and our universities are the gateways to the left.
As is increasingly obvious to those who watch
more than just CNN, the leftists are indeed extremely violent and dangerous at
this point. It’s funny the above compares them to “neo-Nazis,” because the
comparison is even stronger than implied. See, “Nazi” is short for (in German)
“National Socialism.” The leftists are worse than neo-Nazis because they are
even more Nazi than neo-Nazis. I’ve literally tried to explain to followers of
this ideology, when they praise socialism, that they’re following the beliefs
of Hitler, the undisputed father of Nazism. On more than one occasion, this has
caused a head to nearly explode in the effort to contain the cognitive
disconnect of holding both “I must punch a Nazi” and “I’m a Nazi” in their
brain simultaneously. So far, the end response has only been fury…but I feel
the need to keep trying to impose reason with those who will at least go
through the motions of attempting a dialogue.
In any event, the rise of edu-fascism in
our schools has indeed led to the creation of tens of thousands of democratic
socialist party members…as well as fabulous wealth for those corrupt pirates
running the system. As neither of these outcomes is desirable, I repeat my
refrain to cut off the money paying for both: end the student loan scam.
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