I think a lot of the reason so many liberals are in academia is that they have all these utopian ideals from when they were young, and they have never really faced the real world. A kid going from high school straight to college, then to grad school, really hasn’t experienced the real world. When they get a tenure-track position, the chances of them ever experiencing the real world (as opposed to viewing it from the lofty heights of their ivory towers) become all but nil.
One theory is that many communists and Jewish communist academes fled Nazi Germany and took up residence in the Universities here and it’s been downhill ever since.
I think you have nailed the tip of the iceburg.
I have found myself posting this particular link a lot lately.
http://www.crossroad.to/index.html#welcome
I am afraid that the moderator will think I am soliciting.
Radicals serve as the gatekeepers of academia so if you are not politically correct, you don’t do well in school. You don’t get into grad schools; your commie professors won’t recommend you and won’t help you get jobs. As an artist, liberals will give you bad reviews. You will fail journalism school. You won’t get into a Ph.d history program. In education, you will fail your essays and projects. All subjective grading for the non-politically correct ends up very low for some reason. If you get in they will hound you out as a hater as fast and they can sniff you out.
Saint John Vianney, aka “the Cure d’Ars”, said: “Take priests away from churches for 20 years and people will worship beasts”. It’s just that simple. Take Christianity out of America, or anywhere else, and people will worship themselves, their brains, their bodies or beasts. The US government has successfully repressed the public expression of Christianity, and scoffed at religion and God Himself by punishing even the most benign, trivial, public expression of Christianity, hence we are now being ruled by atheistic intellectuals, communists, facists, narcissists, the effeminate, and every other form of humanism there is. America rose to power, not coincidentally, when we were governed by men who found no offense in the public expression of Christianity, and who in fact often publicly reverenced God for our nation’s blessings. That’s all gone now, and so goes the pillar and foundation of our cherished freedom.
. Simple.
Those that can do....those that can't ...teach.
There! Fixed that. We must call the enemy who and what he is.
The truth is, some people (academics) have the desire/gift to research and teach. What is so wrong about that?
I consider myself to be a conservative on some things, libertarian on others and I am a lecturer at a university. There are some good non-lib profs out there, so don’t broad brush.
One last thing: I’m tired of reading “Those who can do, those who can’t teach” and the other backwoods sentiment on here. It is because of this sentiment we lost in ‘06 and ‘08- we’re resorting to slogans like “they can’t hack it in the real world hurhurhur” and NOT embracing conservative/libertarian intellectual traditions. Maybe if we didn’t mock higher education and the geist around it, things would have worked out differently in ‘06 and ‘08.
That’s all.
Envy and group-think...