[monkeyshine]

You might be interested in this story, Bret Weinstein (the professor who quit his job at Evergreen along with his wife because they thought the “no white people day” was obviously racists and were ostracized for it) are part of what they or the NYT call a burgeoning “intellectual dark web” of disenchanted actvists. The article goes into some detail about Weinstein and others including Joe Rogan, Kanye West, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and many others. Some of them are making bigger bucks selling speaking engagements and asking for donations on podcasts, etc than they were being scientists or professors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

[BBell]

Academic victims of authoritarian regimes are lionized by the press,politicians and intellectuals in other countries but there is a reason why regimes go after these academics.

Usually an authoritarian regime takes over after a period of unrest, revolution and general dysfunction. Often times the roots of a lot of this mayhem lies in the Universities which makes them the first targets of the new regime. More often than not these academics are lefties.

[donna]

“So many of our institutions have been overtaken by schools of thought, which are inherently a dead end,” Bret Weinstein said. “The I.D.W. is the unschooling movement.”

Thank you for the link. I read it last night and I'm still thinking it over. It's good to learn that somewhere these people have acknowledged, to a small extent, this amazing problem.

These intellectuals should have been reading FR since 1998, maybe then they wouldn't be so afraid of us, lol.

Instead of learning some humility from their experiences, they now think of themselves as the elite-of-the-eltie.

Everything would fall into place for them if they would just meet Jesus. That's what is missing from their studies.