Posted on 02/29/2016 9:07:17 PM PST by ReformationFan
I’m assured that, on occasion, learning still happens on college campuses. I have not detected any evidence of this, but I accept it as a matter of faith. People I trust have assured me that universities are not just bastions of cultish indoctrination — there’s a lot of sex and beer pong, too. But sometimes, I’m informed, a rebellious student might endeavor to adsorb an actual fact or piece of knowledge. Again, I cannot independently confirm this shocking claim.
These rogue learners aside, it’s obvious that college is often a place where students go to erase from their minds any trace of truth or common sense. Supplanted in its place is a dreamscape of “white privilege” and “systematic racism” and “non-binary gender” and “patriarchy” and “transgenderism” and leprechauns and climate change and other fictional phenomena. Central to this fantasy world is always me. Not me, specifically, but the Great Me, the Mighty Me, the Universal Me.
The primary lesson kids learn in college and in our culture is that they, personally, individually, are primary. Their thoughts, ideas, and (especially) feelings are the most important things in existence, and all of existence ought to bend to their whim. If they feel sad, the world must make them happy. If they say something, the world must listen. If they believe something to be true, the world must play along.
We could spend all day talking about the lies kids are taught in college and in society at large, but this, the primacy of their own emotions and beliefs, is the most damaging. I thought, then, it might be a good idea to run down a list of three basic, uncomfortable, common sense truths, for the benefit of these college students(and everyone else).
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The sooner these pansies learn this, the better they will survive in the real world
Your boss does not care that your friend’s cousin unfriended you on facebook
Crybullies.
Oh, Godfather, I
don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.
VITO CORLEONE
You can act like a man!
(then, after slapping Johnny on the face)
What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finocchio that ah cries like a woman?
(then imitating Johnny, as Tom giggles)
What can I do?! What can I do?!
(then)
What is that nonsense? Ridiculous.
Fake adults. They probably need six weeks in some rat-infested country to get them back to reality.
Took me a few minutes to recover from the boo boo suffered by my poor wittle ego--but deep down I knew he was absolutely right.
In today's world, a professor like that would probably be excoriated for being "harsh", and have to take a myriad of "sensitivity training" classes.
I would like to send these children to some of the places I’ve been. Livestock is more valuable than human life.
Some people are going to learn some very hard lessons once they have to confront the world.
I know what happened:
“Not me, specifically, but the Great Me, the Mighty Me, the Universal Me.”
All of this self-centered behavior started right after.....the Higgs Field was discovered. Everything was fine when we merely postulated the existence of Higgs, but the act of discovering its reality released it from Pandora’s box, and they settled into the bodies of college students.
Don’t blame these poor kids. They are just big Higgs fields now.
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