The
government we are currently saddled with is saturated with officials from my
generation. We were taught, however subtly, that the standards of truth to
which people should be held accountable depend on who they are and what they
happen to be saying. The grievances of minority groups, for example, can simply
not be questioned. The grievances of non-minority groups (white southerners are
a perennial favorite) can be immediately reviled and dismissed. Racism is back
with a vengeance -- the difference is that now you will be called racist
if you attempt to point it out. Relevant objective facts, like the prevalence
of black-on-black crime, are excluded from consideration. Politically
acceptable “truth” isn’t to be found in facts, but simply in the recitation of
the narrative.
If
the current state of things is terrible, the possibilities for the future are
nearly unimaginable. What would happen if the self-indulgent, sexually
ambiguous thumb-suckers that inhabit university safe-spaces today, demanding
trigger warnings so that their hypersensitive feeling aren’t scratched by
anything factual, find their way into positions of real authority? These
monsters scare even the liberal Professor Frankensteins who created them. Mercifully, we may never know what
a world run by student cry-bullies would be like -- but only because it will
either collapse or change before they manage to ascend to the throne. In times
of real scarcity, the people who put up the front money for university
educations (parents, banks, or the Federal government) will figure out that
investing money merely to produce unproductive narcissists is not only
unprofitable, but redundant work. Even the worst middle school in the poorest
inner-city ghetto can make losers out of any human raw material provided, bad
or good. Indeed, contemporary culture probably produces losers without any
educational assistance at all. Even now, the actual demand for
educationally-induced political activism is minuscule. One elite school was all
we needed to produce the narcissistic loser that occupies the White House now
-- and one of him has been quite enough to nearly bring the country to its
knees.
