In 1951, the SF author, Cyril M. Kornbluth (C M Kornbluth) wrote a novella of the future titled “The Marching Morons”. The premise was a future where the low intelligence population vastly outnumbers a working and functional intelligent elite who are forced to labor mightily to keep society functioning.
Now, I fear that we are seeing this in action. Whilst we may be deluded about the intelligence of these ‘precious snowflakes’, their worth and endurance is yet to be tested and the preliminary tests, like this one, are not promising! To invoke a meme, this has all of the aspects of the inmates taking over the asylum, only in this case, the adults of the institution are not resisting but instead aiding and abetting!
The idiocy of this individual action demonstrates the error of the disconnect between short term satisfaction of the internal morons in (symbolically) replacing Shakespeare and the longer term of detriment for the graduates when they demonstrate palpable ignorance at common usage of quotes by the same. Thus, unless they volunteer for remedial education, they will be subject to that ‘ill wind’ that will sweep them out to be replaced with the knowledgable!
Yes, ‘ill wind’ does come from Proverbs in the Bible, but they have ALREADY thrown that into the trash at the Universities! Those pictures of NAZI Book bonfires? The Universities today cannot have bonfires but that is only because the EPA has regulations against it!
Kornbluth was a prophet. . . and a weirdo:
According to Pohl, Kornbluth never brushed his teeth, and they were literally green. Deeply embarrassed by this, Kornbluth developed the habit of holding his hand in front of his mouth when speaking.
Kornbluth disliked black coffee, but felt obliged to acquire a taste for it because he believed that professional authors were “supposed to” drink black coffee. He trained himself by putting gradually less cream into each cup of coffee he drank, until he eventually “weaned himself” (Knight’s description) and switched to black coffee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth#Personality_and_habits