Do you really think this college admissions scandal is new? A new racket? Just look at some of those we know supposedly educated at highfalutin institutions of higher learning. Our political families? People who would die rather than hob nob with the peasants over at the public school. It’s always been that way. Daddy donates a few million and junior is admitted. Even if junior is dumb as a box of rocks. President’s kid? Pick any school. According to Ben Shapiro, a brilliant young man and Harvard Law graduate, these children of the wealthy are not going to school to learn a skill set. They’re going there for the credential and the lifelong social connections – another participation trophy. Yep, these are the people with their “credential” and “connections” who end up running our country. Certainly, it’s not every wealthy kid just as certain as it is that there are principled and ethical parents who actually worked hard for what they have and believe their children should do the same, but from the evidence it’s easy to surmise it is many.
I’m not going to delve too deeply into our education system as American Journal is privileged to have an expert on our team, who I expect will have plenty to say about that in future posts.
“What are the humanities? The humanities can be described as the study of how people process and document the human experience. Since humans have been able, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and record our world. These modes of expression have become some of the subjects that traditionally fall under the humanities umbrella. Knowledge of these records of human experience gives us the opportunity to feel a sense of connection to those who have come before us, as well as to our contemporaries.” Stanford Humanities Center
When we consider these young people who are mostly getting degrees in the humanities, which has expanded to encompass things beyond classic humanities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, what is their likely career path? It’s academia, government, journalism and similar occupations because they have nothing to offer industries that need engineers, mathematicians, scientists or other skills. Don’t misunderstand, I know there are value to the degrees. We must know our history. We must have people who are skilled at running a free and fair press. We must have teachers and as bad as it may be most days, someone to run our government.
Each year our universities, elite and not so elite, turn out into society, legions of young people who know “how process and document the human experience.” They take that education and the “sense of connection” and just want to make our lives better. Humanities subjects themselves are important to any society, but I’m left to ponder what additions to these areas of study do professors offer their students. Do they get history lessons accompanied by a fact less possibly tainted worldview?
I am left to wonder when I see and hear these young people root for Socialism while offering disdain for capitalism. I hear them defending and demanding democracy when we are a representative republic not a pure democracy. I hear them demanding that we abandon the Electoral College and instead rely on a national popular vote to elect a president clearly not understanding that to do so would mean east and west coast population centers turning the rest of the country into voiceless serfdom – and that unfortunately is the stuff civil wars are made of. They oppose voter identification laws while supporting sanctuary cities and in some cases sanctuary states for illegal immigrants.
They think 16 year old children should vote, as their matron Nancy Pelosi declared, “I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school, when they’re interested in all of this, when they’re learning about the government, to be able to vote.” Exactly, Madame Speaker, when they have zero life experience and are easily emotionally manipulated, “Our world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change!” I was 16 once and was never “interested in all this” but I was as gullible as any 16 year old could be. They also believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to vote, might I add legally. Write it down, it’s the next voting rights move.
They listen to Bernie Sanders and cheer for free Medicare for all, discounting the millions upon millions who were forced into the system and now depend on it. A guaranteed living wage that will close the doors on small business quicker than you can say bankruptcy. And it goes on and on and on until we get to free college for all the voting age 18-year olds and maybe 16 as well.
There are millions of Americans like me. We do not have a lot, but we’re okay. We worked decades for what we do have and that makes us appreciate things more, especially our free country. But the system made us dependent. Dependent on a military pension or some other, social security, and our often-piddling retirement accounts. All of which will disappear in a puff of smoke when our children educated in the “human experience” with a healthy dose of 60’s activism votes for utopia. They tell me however, they’re no longer interested in old white men so it’s not likely to be Bernie who does us in. Kamala and Spartacus?
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