We used to stand on the shoulders of giant so we might see farther than them. Now we gleefully hack away at their ankles so the midwits don't feel small in their shadows.
I suggest dropping the use of the term "identity" - it has nothing to do with that word. The correct term would be race. Race-based hiring practices. Race-based politics. Race-based entertainment media content - go look at anything produced by Hollywood/Disney post-2010 and tell me I'm wrong (please tell me I'm wrong because I don't want to be right!).
Claudine Gay is a race-hire. She is hired to be a magical negro. nothing more. Any black american should be outraged at the inherent racist condescension on display.
Another thing. John, did you notice that all her abstracts are structured the exact same way? Completely formulaic. It immediately made me think of the postmodernism generator. Maybe she actually used something akin to that?
Judging by the comic book industry in the US, we're coming up to the finish soon, re: Culture War and the woke having the upper hand. Now, using military analogies, this is typically the time when a western military would slow their roll and offer negotiating terms. That is a deadly mistake. Instead we, meaning anyone opposing the PC-woke-DEI-you-know-what-I-mean-agendas, must think russian: when the enemy falters, increase the pressure. If he collapses, hound him. If he routs, run him down.
The woke Napoleons have arrived at Moscow, and now Moscow is burning. The woke Wehrmacht has faltered at Prokhorovka. Now is the time to attack, rund the into to the ground - everywhere - and wipe them out.
It's like fighting. You don't aim the punch at the other guy's chin. You aim it at a foot behond his head - followthrough, you know?
We can do this by keeping the pressure on, and showing support for, those public figures who in our various nations says "No!" in any way to the Cosmopolit (Globalist for youngsters) Jagganatha.
Im going to use the term fake and Gay more often henceforth. This is no longer to be construed as a reference to homosexuality, which might be offensive, but to Claudine Gay who has been proven fake in the manner most characteristic of this sclerotic DIEing regime.
The university system was actually begun by the Catholic church in the Middle Ages. In the US, it has evolved into a system for students to prove that they can lie and grovel well enough to fit in as employees of corporations, the government, and the education system itself.
People slowly but surely rediscovering the original meaning of the "few bad apples" idiom, which has been turned completely on its head by bad apples and the evaporation of agricultural competence over the past 100 years.
The signs of rot were there decades ago. The whole exercise since then has been fruitlessly (pun intended) debating which was the first bad apple and which apples might still be intact, as a way to distract oneself from the rot's rapid spread. The correct solution, as in the idiom's original meaning, was to cut the loss and burn the whole bunch, then identify how it happened and make sure that never happened again.
John, a guilty confession - I have a giant schaden-boner as a result of a petty personal grudge against those pretentious d-bags on the north side of the Charles over the whole L’Affaire de Gay. So this was like milk and honey for me.
Thank you. It’s been obvious for a looooonnnnngggg time that meritocracy was gone in the academe, but it took the most recent shitshow to drive a stake through its vampiric heart.
The rot goes back close to a century. Academia has called weird noises "music" and splotches of paint "Art" and Circular Flow Theory "economics" going way back.
Endowment funds should be taxed or spent down. No non profit should survive without fund replenishment from living donors. The dead vote should be limited to Chicago mayor elections.
Thanks for your round-up of examples of STEM research that's not different from looking for phlogiston or ether. Places like Unz.com are full of smug midwits saying that our cultural problems are due to people wasting time in bullshit humanities, when they should invest their high IQ's in STEM. I usually point out to them a remark of Hermann Hesse (either in or about The Glass Bead Game) that when truth, presumably the subject of the humanities, is degraded -- "there is no truth" (postmodernism) or "truth is what benefits the proletariat" (Marxism) -- then soon the engineer's calculations go astray, and the bridges start falling down. When you abandon "soft" subjects like philosophy or politics to the Left, don't be surprised when the Left dominates academia. That relates to your second point, about DEI as such (AA hires, PC topics of research) but your first point shows that even STEM is now largely bullshit. So you have students not capable of real scientific research, but that's OK, because they're not allowed to do that anyway. There's no real difference btw a Foucault "scholar" and a physicist "exploring string theory".
Except DEI is entrenched at the K-12 level via state departments of education and unions, in local governments via grant requirements (we only dole out the state money if you do the trainings), and even mainstream Christian denominations. My local church has changed out the gay pride flag so many times trying to keep up with the new representations I can't keep up. (Be sure the rainbow and chevron flag has the little circle! Otherwise children could commit suicide!) All that to say, the university heads garner all the attention while DIE bureaucrats are attacking our flanks and have us basically by the you know whats. University may be the least of our problems.
This person, “Claudine Gay” is a caricature of the type, is she AI? Emperor Claudius just to begin. But still, all the “mannish” pretensions from buzz cut to “geek glasses” to shoulder pads - fake it ’til you make it. You know, I began this article all full of the usual emotions, but it ended with a real sadness. To this is what our culture has been reduced. Thanks for posting, Martian.
If you will recall, not that long ago the visceral gnashing of teeth and much rending of breasts came howling out of these same campuses about 'American Exceptionalism.' They were aghast, clamoring and fighting each other for even a brief moment in the media spotlight so they could spew carbon copy refutation - because racism. Because slavery. Because patriarchy.
.
It strikes me as appropriate the inevitable collision of reality these same credentialed toddlers are about to experience, when soon competing in the increasingly global marketplace. The very University from whence they were hatched will be counted against them.
I appreciate your mourning the end of western civilization, but the rot extends much further than just academia. It permeates our culture, and the stock is already weakened beyond repair. Whiteness itself seems to have run its course. It brings me no joy to recognize this.
Incredible that they spend every waking moment thinking about their identity and still manage to have zero self awareness.
We used to stand on the shoulders of giant so we might see farther than them. Now we gleefully hack away at their ankles so the midwits don't feel small in their shadows.
I suggest dropping the use of the term "identity" - it has nothing to do with that word. The correct term would be race. Race-based hiring practices. Race-based politics. Race-based entertainment media content - go look at anything produced by Hollywood/Disney post-2010 and tell me I'm wrong (please tell me I'm wrong because I don't want to be right!).
Claudine Gay is a race-hire. She is hired to be a magical negro. nothing more. Any black american should be outraged at the inherent racist condescension on display.
Another thing. John, did you notice that all her abstracts are structured the exact same way? Completely formulaic. It immediately made me think of the postmodernism generator. Maybe she actually used something akin to that?
(https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/)
Judging by the comic book industry in the US, we're coming up to the finish soon, re: Culture War and the woke having the upper hand. Now, using military analogies, this is typically the time when a western military would slow their roll and offer negotiating terms. That is a deadly mistake. Instead we, meaning anyone opposing the PC-woke-DEI-you-know-what-I-mean-agendas, must think russian: when the enemy falters, increase the pressure. If he collapses, hound him. If he routs, run him down.
The woke Napoleons have arrived at Moscow, and now Moscow is burning. The woke Wehrmacht has faltered at Prokhorovka. Now is the time to attack, rund the into to the ground - everywhere - and wipe them out.
It's like fighting. You don't aim the punch at the other guy's chin. You aim it at a foot behond his head - followthrough, you know?
We can do this by keeping the pressure on, and showing support for, those public figures who in our various nations says "No!" in any way to the Cosmopolit (Globalist for youngsters) Jagganatha.
Im going to use the term fake and Gay more often henceforth. This is no longer to be construed as a reference to homosexuality, which might be offensive, but to Claudine Gay who has been proven fake in the manner most characteristic of this sclerotic DIEing regime.
The university system was actually begun by the Catholic church in the Middle Ages. In the US, it has evolved into a system for students to prove that they can lie and grovel well enough to fit in as employees of corporations, the government, and the education system itself.
People slowly but surely rediscovering the original meaning of the "few bad apples" idiom, which has been turned completely on its head by bad apples and the evaporation of agricultural competence over the past 100 years.
The signs of rot were there decades ago. The whole exercise since then has been fruitlessly (pun intended) debating which was the first bad apple and which apples might still be intact, as a way to distract oneself from the rot's rapid spread. The correct solution, as in the idiom's original meaning, was to cut the loss and burn the whole bunch, then identify how it happened and make sure that never happened again.
"...700 Faculty Urge Against Gay’s Removal..."
I guess we know who else practiced plagiarism.
John, a guilty confession - I have a giant schaden-boner as a result of a petty personal grudge against those pretentious d-bags on the north side of the Charles over the whole L’Affaire de Gay. So this was like milk and honey for me.
Thank you. It’s been obvious for a looooonnnnngggg time that meritocracy was gone in the academe, but it took the most recent shitshow to drive a stake through its vampiric heart.
Wonderful.
The rot goes back close to a century. Academia has called weird noises "music" and splotches of paint "Art" and Circular Flow Theory "economics" going way back.
Endowment funds should be taxed or spent down. No non profit should survive without fund replenishment from living donors. The dead vote should be limited to Chicago mayor elections.
Thanks for your round-up of examples of STEM research that's not different from looking for phlogiston or ether. Places like Unz.com are full of smug midwits saying that our cultural problems are due to people wasting time in bullshit humanities, when they should invest their high IQ's in STEM. I usually point out to them a remark of Hermann Hesse (either in or about The Glass Bead Game) that when truth, presumably the subject of the humanities, is degraded -- "there is no truth" (postmodernism) or "truth is what benefits the proletariat" (Marxism) -- then soon the engineer's calculations go astray, and the bridges start falling down. When you abandon "soft" subjects like philosophy or politics to the Left, don't be surprised when the Left dominates academia. That relates to your second point, about DEI as such (AA hires, PC topics of research) but your first point shows that even STEM is now largely bullshit. So you have students not capable of real scientific research, but that's OK, because they're not allowed to do that anyway. There's no real difference btw a Foucault "scholar" and a physicist "exploring string theory".
Damn, your writing is like an arrow shot straight into the withered blackened heart of academia.
I love it.
Except DEI is entrenched at the K-12 level via state departments of education and unions, in local governments via grant requirements (we only dole out the state money if you do the trainings), and even mainstream Christian denominations. My local church has changed out the gay pride flag so many times trying to keep up with the new representations I can't keep up. (Be sure the rainbow and chevron flag has the little circle! Otherwise children could commit suicide!) All that to say, the university heads garner all the attention while DIE bureaucrats are attacking our flanks and have us basically by the you know whats. University may be the least of our problems.
This person, “Claudine Gay” is a caricature of the type, is she AI? Emperor Claudius just to begin. But still, all the “mannish” pretensions from buzz cut to “geek glasses” to shoulder pads - fake it ’til you make it. You know, I began this article all full of the usual emotions, but it ended with a real sadness. To this is what our culture has been reduced. Thanks for posting, Martian.
If you will recall, not that long ago the visceral gnashing of teeth and much rending of breasts came howling out of these same campuses about 'American Exceptionalism.' They were aghast, clamoring and fighting each other for even a brief moment in the media spotlight so they could spew carbon copy refutation - because racism. Because slavery. Because patriarchy.
.
It strikes me as appropriate the inevitable collision of reality these same credentialed toddlers are about to experience, when soon competing in the increasingly global marketplace. The very University from whence they were hatched will be counted against them.
I appreciate your mourning the end of western civilization, but the rot extends much further than just academia. It permeates our culture, and the stock is already weakened beyond repair. Whiteness itself seems to have run its course. It brings me no joy to recognize this.
While we're at it, someone should take a new look at Ms. Obama and Ms. Biden's academic work. Timing.