Homer doesn't need academics. He will survive. But academics have abandoned Homer for revolutionary pursuits. And they are destroying minds, institutions and the truth in the process. And they don't care. I don't think anything other than the buildings and the libraries are of much use (there are always a few exceptions). It's time to pu…
Homer doesn't need academics. He will survive. But academics have abandoned Homer for revolutionary pursuits. And they are destroying minds, institutions and the truth in the process. And they don't care. I don't think anything other than the buildings and the libraries are of much use (there are always a few exceptions). It's time to pull the plug on government funding, tax them like businesses and require full disclosure from any institution that takes any money from the public or the government. Let's see what applying GAAP principles, SEC reporting rules and Sarbanes Oxley might reveal. And let's start a pool about how long garbage departments like Ethnic and Peace and Diversity Studies would survive if the schools actually had to pay for them from money they earned, not extracted.
We would all like to return to those halcyon days when academics aspired to an ascetic life of the mind, free to inquire and write and tech. But that is no longer the case. Universities are over-funded, co-opted entirely from top-to-bottom with leftist, illiberal ideologues. Those who might object are busy getting government grants so they can monetize the labs that students and endowments fund for their own benefit. The entire enterprise has become corrupted - with 90%+ of faculty everywhere being sucked into (or shoving) garbage oaths to garbage programs funded by unknowing and unwitting taxpayers. And by the very nature of the 'tenured' faculty, nothing short of a purge (defunding and failure) can change any of this.
I have degrees from several top 10 universities - and I don't give a pauper's damn about them until we clear the decks. And by the way, I preferred Hume and Wittgenstein... but certainly admired Ulysses courage.
Homer doesn't need academics. He will survive. But academics have abandoned Homer for revolutionary pursuits. And they are destroying minds, institutions and the truth in the process. And they don't care. I don't think anything other than the buildings and the libraries are of much use (there are always a few exceptions). It's time to pull the plug on government funding, tax them like businesses and require full disclosure from any institution that takes any money from the public or the government. Let's see what applying GAAP principles, SEC reporting rules and Sarbanes Oxley might reveal. And let's start a pool about how long garbage departments like Ethnic and Peace and Diversity Studies would survive if the schools actually had to pay for them from money they earned, not extracted.
We would all like to return to those halcyon days when academics aspired to an ascetic life of the mind, free to inquire and write and tech. But that is no longer the case. Universities are over-funded, co-opted entirely from top-to-bottom with leftist, illiberal ideologues. Those who might object are busy getting government grants so they can monetize the labs that students and endowments fund for their own benefit. The entire enterprise has become corrupted - with 90%+ of faculty everywhere being sucked into (or shoving) garbage oaths to garbage programs funded by unknowing and unwitting taxpayers. And by the very nature of the 'tenured' faculty, nothing short of a purge (defunding and failure) can change any of this.
I have degrees from several top 10 universities - and I don't give a pauper's damn about them until we clear the decks. And by the way, I preferred Hume and Wittgenstein... but certainly admired Ulysses courage.