The Ivy League scolds come for Amy Wax

I have always admired the tag corruptio optima pessima: the corruption of the best is the worst. Take the Ivy League. These super-rich, super-prestigious institutions are so wealthy and so beguiling because, once upon a time, they represented and — more to the point — successfully transmitted to their students the prime civilizational values of our culture.

We’re told, and I have no reason to disbelieve it, that the light we see from distant stars is very old and, in some cases, is light from stars that were long ago extinguished. It is same with the Ivy League and their near competitors.

Today, they are utterly bankrupt — not financially, of course. No, in a good old greedy capitalist sense, they are filthy, stinking rich. It is only in an intellectual and moral sense that they are bankrupt. They are, all of them, totally in thrall to what we have come to call “woke” ideology, which has poisoned the well of their intellectual pretensions by subordinating the life of the mind to identity politics.

All the old liberal virtues — disinterested inquiry, due process, colorblind justice, advance according to merit, not some extraneous racial, ethnic, or sexual quota — all that has been rebranded as the invidious patent of reactionary and therefore impermissible vice. In sum, the educational establishment in its highest reaches is today a cesspool, contaminating the society it had been, at great expense, created to nurture.

… A frenetic restlessness in that bedlam suggests that the end will be coming soon. What cannot go on forever won’t, and the very public nervous breakdown of these tony institutions is now too far advanced to be swept under the carpet.

The article is about the ongoing process of excommunication of Professor Wax from the holy precincts of academia.

As usual, Wikipedia's entry on Professor Wax is egregious:

Amy Laura Wax (born January 19, 1953)[1] is an American lawyer, neurologist, and academic. She is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work addresses issues in social welfare law and policy, as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and labor markets. She has often made remarks, about non-white people, described as white supremacist and racist.

About fifty years ago most “elite” universities abandoned the meritocracy to embrace “equity. inclusiveness and diversity”. It meant of course the ultimate loss of free speech, open inquiry, scholarship and the restraint of “whites”. American nationalism and heritage were also incompatible with the new order. Those whites who could not adapt to the new reality and participate with the indoctrination programs in all subjects would not be tolerated.

The time has come for any taxpayer financial support to these private or public institutions to cease. Defund them now to save the country. I

“About fifty years ago most “elite” universities abandoned the meritocracy to embrace “equity. inclusiveness and diversity”. It meant of course the ultimate loss of free speech, open inquiry, scholarship and the restraint of “whites”. American nationalism and heritage were also incompatible with the new order.

Those whites, who could not adapt to the new reality and participate with the indoctrination programs in all subjects would not be tolerated.”

The Woke B$ from the Great Society from the late 1960’s and the early 70’s flowed downhill from the Ivy League schools, GW, Georgetown, Notre Dame and Purdue, Stanford and USC and into the business world ruled and controlled by the elite alumni of those schools.

As this article pointed out:

“Take the Ivy League. Those super-rich, super-prestigious institutions are so wealthy and so beguiling because, once upon a time, they represented and — more to the point — successfully transmitted to their students the prime civilizational values of our culture.

We’re told, and I have no reason to disbelieve it, that the light we see from distant stars is very old and, in some cases, is light from stars that were long ago extinguished.

It is same with the Ivy League and their near competitors.”

Today, the elites are utterly bankrupt — not financially, of course. No, but in a good old greedy capitalist sense.

Our elites are filthy, stinking rich. It is only in an intellectual and moral sense that they are bankrupt.

They are, all of them, totally in thrall/all to what we have come to call “woke” ideology. Being Woke has poisoned the wells of their intellectual pretensions by subordinating the life of the mind to identity politics.

Anthropology has turned its back on its legacy.

In sum, the educational establishment in its highest reaches is today a cesspool, contaminating the society it had been, at great expense, created to nurture.”

Since, B$ rolls downhill, many of our corporations, universities and our military, started America down on that road to being “woke” re our corporations, universities, military.

Our country is at the point, where, we may not be able to correct our downward Woke plunge since the late 1960s to today.

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