How to Destroy a People

[mystery-ak]

May 26, 2023
How to Destroy a People
By Jeffrey Folks

Twenty years ago, I interviewed a young woman for an entry-level position at the prestigious university where I taught.  I had read the candidate's Ph.D. thesis, with considerable reservations, and was eager to ask about her scholarly interests.  She stated that she followed the approach called "critical theory" and that her interest was limited to whatever was abnormal, perverse, and antagonistic.  She despised everything that was conventional, decent, or good.

As a person who had devoted his entire life to promoting what was conventional, decent, and good, I was taken aback.  Not that I was entirely surprised.  Critical theory, with its antagonistic attitude toward ordinary society, had been gaining ground for decades.  I myself had attended the first National Endowment seminar, at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1988, focusing on critical theory, and I did not like what I heard.

It turned out that I was the only member of the hiring committee to vote against the young candidate.  Her other qualifications were sterling, and apparently the others on the hiring committee saw nothing wrong with her fascination with the perverse.  As it was, the abnormal was well on its way to becoming normal, as it now is in almost every university in America and much of the West — and in high schools and elementary schools as well.  The so-called academic discipline of critical theory is the source of most of the social conflicts that are now arising — everything from transgender "rights" to slavery reparations to sanctuary cities to no-bail policing.  It all derives from misguided sympathy with what appears to be marginal, outcast, and oppressed, but what actually constitutes a new class of privilege.

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[Free Vulcan]

The question need no longer be asked - it is time to go Galt. Past time.

[unite for individuality]

... and apparently the others on the hiring committee saw nothing wrong with her fascination with the perverse.  As it was, the abnormal was well on its way to becoming normal, as it now is in almost every university in America and much of the West — and in high schools and elementary schools as well.

During his final few years, Rush Limbaugh regretted
how he had previously treated ridiculous academic proclamations.
He would recall how we would all laugh ourselves silly
each time some professor would make some ridiculous statement,
and gloat over how he or she had embarrassed themselves
and ruined their reputation of being "intelligent."

But in recent years, we now see an entire generation who grew up
hearing nothing but all this stupidity.
Rush regretted believing that the academics were harming
only themselves and their own reputation,
when in fact they were devastating an entire generation!

Civilization is hanging by a thread!
And we STILL have far too many parents who are complacent,
who blindly believe that everything is just fine,
that today's schools are just like what they grew up with,
and that "the school is the expert, they must be right."

Closely monitor your children!
Ask them what's going on in school!
ALL SCHOOLS!  Many religious and private schools
are just as polluted as the public schools!
Build close relationships with your children!

In most cases, I would recommend students NOT debating the teacher in class.
The teachers are spouting many extremely stupid doctrines,
but they are very well versed in their stupidity!
They have all been to many seminars where
they rehearse their talking points to exhaustion.

Have your children tell you at home what's going on in school,
and set them right yourself.
Tell them to just pretend to go along with the garbage.
And tell them to just tell their friends
to tell their families what's being said and done in school.

And to get their news from places like this forum.

[Smokin Joe]

The question need no longer be asked - it is time to go Galt. Past time.