College campuses have long
been known and even openly celebrated as massive dens of debauchery, a place
where “kids” go to “sow their wild oats” and enjoy “the college experience”,
which is assumed to include indulging in all manner of sexual depravity and
substance abuse. The basic idea is (and has been for longer than I’ve been
alive) that late-teens should not only be treated as children where
expectations are concerned, but they should be downright encouraged to seize
the “opportunity” to openly rebel against God by diving deep into the sewer of
sexual perversion and drunkenness, among other things, all while being given a
pass by society since “that’s just what kids do”.
After generations of this
approach, we’ve arrived at a predictably disgusting, pathetic destination, a
place in which the most routinely and reliably produced human product flowing
from American college campuses are skanks, idiots, and snowflakes.
While there are some positive
products managing to make it through the same system, the expected norm for
college product as become morally perverted, staggeringly ignorant perpetual
adolescents who are also staggeringly proud and impressed with themselves and
quite certain that, if the universe does not currently revolve around them, it
is their righteous mission to make it do so by any means necessary.
This is where generations of
anti-Christ approaches to education has taken us.
This is the reality
chronicled in a recent article from The College Fix entitled “Slutty
sheep: Veteran academics warn college students are going off the rails”, which
included the following lovely little bits of insight as to what “the kids” in
America are up to these days:
“. . . Today’s college
students are “situationally confused.” They have no room in their schedules for
“intellectual curiosity.”
And their sexual promiscuity
is practically the only part of their lives that their colleges refuse to
police.
Two veteran academics who
have diagnosed different plagues in modern higher education have little
optimism for young people entering college for the foreseeable future, judging
by their presentations to a conference this past weekend at Franciscan
University of Steubenville, a conservative Catholic institution.
College students have no
passions today and “aren’t trained to pay attention to the things they feel
connected to,” former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz told the
gathering on the “crisis” in American higher education at the Veritas Center
for Public Ethics.
In fact, higher education has
become “profoundly unintellectual” and student life has become about
“accumulating gold stars,” said Deresiewicz, who publicly disavowed Ivy League
education several years after leaving Yale.
The author of Excellent Sheep, which
fleshes out his views on the failure of elite education, told the Franciscan
crowd that most students nowadays think that being intellectual simply means
getting good grades.
Deresiewicz explained that
most students now engross themselves so much into learning the structural parts
of their classes that they “don’t have time for intellectual curiosity.”
Students “can’t think for
themselves because they don’t have time,” he said.”
He began assigning A-minus
grades to students whose papers simply checked all the necessary boxes for an A
but didn’t add any real insight, while working with those students to help them
find their own intellectual voice.
Deresiewicz recounted how a
student once told him “‘I hate all my activities, I hate all my classes, I
hated high school, and I expect to hate my job,’” and that she had accepted
this as her reality.”
These reports should be
anything but surprising.
Sad, heartbreaking, and even
angering?
Sure. Of course.
But surprising?
No way.
The amoral (and therefore
inherently demoralizing), anti-intellectual, pagan indoctrination cesspool
status of American college campus life has been widely known and proudly
broadcast for many decades now.
We covered this at FBC nearly
three years ago in Giving Our Daughters “The College Experience”,
where we asked and answered some important, and quite basic, questions,
including:
“Ever wonder why we’re having
the cultural experience that we’re having right about now?
Ever wonder why we’re having
the “gay marriage is ‘legal’” experience now in America?
Ever wonder why we’ve been –
and continue to have – the “child-sacrifice for convenience is ‘legal’
experience here in America?
Ever wonder why we’ve been
“enjoying” the production of more and more secular-minded “Christians” and a
more and more openly pagan culture for generations now?
Ever wonder why each
successive generation of Americans – certainly including the professing
Christians among them – is more and more secular-minded and openly pagan than
the last?
Well, there’s no need to
wonder, really.
The answer is obvious.
Painful, but obvious…if only we’ll take an honest, hard look at it.
It’s all about education. . .
“
A year prior to that,
in Adolescence is a Big Fat Lie,
we asked another equally relevant question:
“Did you know that
18-year-olds are not children?
They’re not kids.
Well, they’re not supposed to
be anyway…however much the typical American 20-something male might seem to be
living evidence of the contrary.
They may well be the children
and kids of their parents, and those parents are always going to lovingly
consider them in that light forever, which is sweet in its own way, but that
isn’t the point here.
The point is that
18-year-olds, and 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds, for that matter, do not belong in
the “child” or “kiddo” category, because they are – get this – not children. . . “
Who knew, right?
Who knew that there was no
such thing as adolescence and that there was no get-out-of-morality-free card
available to teenagers so that they might “sow their wild oats” with relative
impunity?
Who knew that “sowing wild
oats” was never acceptable, never desirable, and would always lead to pain in
the lives of those practicing it and the death of the culture that encourages
it?
Who knew these things?
Who knows these things?
Biblically informed men,
women, boys, and girls, that’s who.
Which is why biblically
informed men, women, boys, and girls are about to inherit a slew of incredible
opportunities as the systems built upon and promoting the anti-Christ spirit of
the age come crashing down in a heap around us.
As “the college experience”
continues to take its toll on an unrepentant American culture, unleashing
armies of self-absorbed, ignorant, STD-laden, fragile-yet-aggressively angry
SJW snowflakes obsessed with imposing their emotion-dominated will upon society
before crashing and burning in dramatic fashion, it is God’s grace-fueled
remnant that will be left standing in a position of previously unthinkable
opportunity.
At the end of the day, this
stupid snowflakey storm will pass. When it does, those grounded in the reality
of a world made and governed by God will be very well positioned to build and
accomplish great things, all by God’s grace, all for His glory, and all to the
eternal benefit of His people.
