My pessimism about “the end of Woke” that we heard about the past few months is due to academia. The government bureaucracies being scourged by Trump were the left’s muscle, but academia has been the left’s brain for well over a century.
Pausing the federal grants will force universities to prioritize, but most of the self-proclaimed intelligentsia weren’t leftist because they got subsidies; the subsidies went to leftists because the people giving the subsidies wanted to be intelligentsia. To people of average discernment, that meant being leftist.
As long as employers can be liable for disparate outcomes, academia will have a stranglehold on credentials. Even if this is formally overturned, there’ll need to be actual means for teaching & training, and I don’t know how far along our replacements are coming. Plus, of course, there’s still a lot of “moderates” who are still enamored of the idea of a college degree.
I think about myself as a kid/teen. I’m sure many struggled to see the competence and responsibility.
I turned out good. I’m doubt I’m alone here in hiding goodness in a cloak of jackassery. Of course, it is hard to look at my son and others his age, especially as he watches the dumbest stuff on youtube and think that hidden somewhere in there is a good work ethic and some intelligence, but looks have deceived before… So here’s hoping.
I played Karateka once or twice on my friend’s Apple 2e. I still don’t know if it’s pronounced:
Kar-A-teka
Or Basil
My hope for the future–
Mushroom clouds on the Sea of Tranquility.
The safe return of the Yak.
My shillelagh resting against my bedside, at the ready to turn the convex parts of a miscreant’s skull concave.
And, of course, world peace and a winning Powerball ticket.
Loops! I almost forgot, an Ode (or Sonnet, I am not picky) to the brassiere truly worthy of the subject.
Hope for the past is a waste of time, unless you have a Time Machine…
Hope for the present is … oh shucks, I just missed it…
I only get hopes for the present around Chrstmastime.
My hope is built
On nothing less…
If you’re like me
You’ll know the rest…
“… than the smooth, refreshing taste of Pepsi.”
My hope for the future is that Maxine Waters will finally be outed as at least half Klingon.
My pessimism about “the end of Woke” that we heard about the past few months is due to academia. The government bureaucracies being scourged by Trump were the left’s muscle, but academia has been the left’s brain for well over a century.
Pausing the federal grants will force universities to prioritize, but most of the self-proclaimed intelligentsia weren’t leftist because they got subsidies; the subsidies went to leftists because the people giving the subsidies wanted to be intelligentsia. To people of average discernment, that meant being leftist.
As long as employers can be liable for disparate outcomes, academia will have a stranglehold on credentials. Even if this is formally overturned, there’ll need to be actual means for teaching & training, and I don’t know how far along our replacements are coming. Plus, of course, there’s still a lot of “moderates” who are still enamored of the idea of a college degree.
I think about myself as a kid/teen. I’m sure many struggled to see the competence and responsibility.
I turned out good. I’m doubt I’m alone here in hiding goodness in a cloak of jackassery. Of course, it is hard to look at my son and others his age, especially as he watches the dumbest stuff on youtube and think that hidden somewhere in there is a good work ethic and some intelligence, but looks have deceived before… So here’s hoping.