In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas

[AnonymousBosch]

Read this interesting article the other day.

Mandatory Thought Reform at the University Of Deleware

The timeline seems about right, assuming a similar process is happening in other universities, because the 'white privilege / reverse racism' rhetoric is identical and the 'educated' children of the white middle class have suspiciously similar thought processes. This is probably where the notion of 'free speech' and 'objectivity being irrelevant' comes from too. Another member told me privately he'd been subjected to Social Justice training during his schooling.

It fits the Social Justice Timeline I'd noticed a few times before: this new wave of PC thinking starts creeping into public-discourse via the media post-2008. It was seeping into the edges of music journalism circa 2009, mainstream media by about 2011-2012, and games Journalism by 2013. All remaining Progressive Media sources are staffed with these brainwashed, Puritan drones by early 2014.

I doubt there is one Millennial in traditional mainstream media writing now who hasn't been brainwashed in this manner.

This is why it's ridiculous for anyone to expect a fair trial by media in this climate, and why Gamergate has always been wasting its time trying to argue reasonably. The media are Cultists. You're better off targeting your attacker and throwing them to their own social justice wolves, which is easy enough when everyone is so hyper-sensitive.

 

[kbell]

I remember that back 7 years ago. Haven't heard what they morphed it into though. That students that come from that college are pretty dumb and not well adjusted to work in the work world.

 

[Veloce]

Self indulgent rant:

To think back in my pre-teen/teen days... The INSANE amount of pressure to get into a good school, get a good education, and a good job. The minute I turned 13 and hit high school, college was this looming rite of passage that everyone was talking about; college names were thrown around like famous baseball players. The status and ego involved in the whole thing was nuts. Somehow or another I wound up getting into an Advanced Placement English class and was surrounded by kids with scholarships to Harvey Mudd, MIT, any Ivy league college you could name (I wound up getting the lowest grade in the class. The teacher made sure to emphasize this to me for the hell I put him through. I scraped by with a D) It was a high pressure situation. We were told the SAT score would decide our fate for the rest of our lives.

I think about the abject feelings of failure I had when I had to break the news to my parents that I hadn't even applied to any colleges. But it was a massive relief. I didn't even try. I enrolled in a year of community college. The only classes I showed up to were music theory, music history, ensemble class, and performance class. To get my AA I had to take psychology and some other bullshit classes that I never showed up to. After a year I dropped out to live with 4 of my buddies in a counter-culture house and work at a deli. For a while I slept on a couch that would give you a rash if it touched your skin. We took hallucinogens quite frequently and the sheer quantity of alcohol and weed that moved through that apartment was staggering. We read Bukowski, listened to every classical composer and metal band on earth, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, read Plato's Dialogues, Marcus Aurelius, Tim Leary, Terrence McKenna, Ram Dass, Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson. We took mushrooms and went to museums to stare at Impressionist paintings. While high school kids toured with a guide and fucked around, not paying attention, we sat in rapture looking at Van Gogh and Monet, watching the colors and brushstrokes swirling on a luminescent canvass. We got in the head of the artists. We learned the importance of experience versus knowledge. We started to see society around us as automatons living according to the status quo but not taking any risks or living for themselves. I can't help but think that modern education has a lot to do with this. We were on some sort of trajectory that we couldn't put a name on, but we felt that we were doing something right, something real, that we were winning. It was a magical time.

Years later, I am infinitely grateful that I didn't go to college. I went to a trade school for something that I was very passionate about.

You hear all kinds of shit your whole life like, "Follow your heart." You hear it so often and see it on Instagram whore feeds to the point it's trite and meaningless. But it's true. I honestly don't know what I would do if I was in an environment where the mentality like the one in this article was prevalent. It genuinely pains me to think of the resources spent so these little neo-Nazis can have their fucking safe space.


Or to quote Bukowski:

the replacements

Jack London drinking his life away while
writing of strange and heroic men.
Eugene O’Neill drinking himself oblivious
while writing his dark and poetic
works.

now our moderns
lecture at universities
in tie and suit,
the little boys soberly studious,
the little girls with glazed eyes
looking
up,
the lawns so green, the books so dull,
the life so dying of
thirst.

 

[rpg]

I remember that back 7 years ago. Haven't heard what they morphed it into though. That students that come from that college are pretty dumb and not well adjusted to work in the work world.

This shit we are enduring is because everyone is taught they are special.
We lost the ability to tell people to sit down and shut the fuck up. When employers lose the ability to fire idiots, we are gonna be fucked.