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Statement Goal: "Because we need more inept, retarded, clueless, semi-illiterate, but aggressive and violent people in positions of authority and influence".

No kidding

Here's a feel good story I pulled from Prof. Haidt's feed.
A new mob at Sarah Lawrence College: Hope for Gen Z?
The course, which is open to the entire school with no pre-requisites, is designed to tackle big questions about the sociopolitical state of the nation, and ask how various narratives will play out in the upcoming election cycle. The readings are deliberately designed to bring in contrasting ideas and world views from a range of scholars and commentators, from J.D. Vance and Sarah Smarsh to Charles Murray and Arlie Russell Hochschild, as well as Tim Carney, Thomas Frank, Jose Antonio Vargas and Thomas Chatterton Williams.

In each information session, the room was mobbed. Students filled the chairs. They sat on the floor five rows deep. They spilled out into the hallway. This happened in each session for two full days.

The students weren’t worried about last year’s progressive horde, or how they would be viewed for taking a class with me. In fact, many students directly addressed the question of viewpoint diversity head-on in emails and statements to me, such as: ‘I want this class because I don’t want to be told what and how to think’, and ‘I know there is more to the story, I want to see both sides of the political world.’

If government stops handing free money to “diversity”, universities will stop trying so hard to suck in that money.

Fortwaynemobile says

If government stops handing free money to “diversity”, universities will stop trying so hard to suck in that money.

That would definitely help. All those organizations based on resentment (racial, gender, weird sexual preferences) need to stoke the perception of all those problems to keep the funding going. If the funding gets slowed down, then exaggerations and lies should slow down as well. Takes staff and budgets to keep crying wolf all the time you know.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/elite-universities-are-over

their administrative bloat has become legendary to the point of turning meta as deans of diversity dean deaning are in turn overseen by diversity obersturmbannfuhrers on and on past madness and into farce.

at harvard, administrative staff grew from 1,222 in 1969 to 6,543 in 2021, a 435% increase over five decades. the deep hilarity of this figure is that their undergraduate student population was 6,700 in 1969 and 7,153 in 2021. the ratio of admin to students rose from 1 per 5.5 (already absurd) to 1 per 1.1. we’re basically at the point of each student having his own administrator despite having moved from paper records to the internet age. ...

the staff and faculty have been chosen for ideological purity, race, gender, sexual identity, and “diversity statements” that have turned interviews and tenure tracks into struggle sessions.

their leaders have become unqualified, venal, corrupt, and outright fraudulent. ...

the mediocrity downspiral of B’s hiring only C’s and C’s hiring only D’s is emergent law and comes as surely as sunset and ushers in far deeper darkness.

pretty soon the students are unqualified to be there because the standards for their admission were lax.

they dropped standardized tests or sought to adulterate them in order to allow for the selection of students by race and class. they eschewed “content of character” for “complexity of pronouns.”

but reality is not optional and the tests are not “broken” they actually work quite well. they’re just being maligned because the scholastic virtue signaling team does not like the results. ...

the curriculum and research is dictated by utter dependence on federal grants and funding. the howls when it is threatened are at once disingenuous and telling.

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - Harvard President Alan Garber

lovely, you’d like academic freedom? fantastic. i would like that for you as well and wholeheartedly agree!

however, i find this a difficult position to view sincerely when espoused by an institution that has for decades had its views and admissions systematically shaped by dependence on eye wateringly huge amounts of federal money.

you have a $50bn endowment. that should hold you in fine fettle. how about a simple agreement?




yeah, thought not.

... they will keep doubling down because they have a structure of 6,000 deans, 90% of whom would have their positions eliminated in any sort of effectiveness or merit based system.

what was once a shark has become 90% remora by weight.

there’s nothing elite about this anymore. i hear this over an over from my friends’ kids. they know the game is stupid but they feel that they have to play, they have to game it, they repeat what they are told to repeat, regurgitate what the teacher and admissions office want to hear because it’s the only way. ...

the discrimination and mal-selection has become overt, even ostentatious. schools that used to prioritize “legacies” (the children of those who had themselves attended) now penalize them, in many cases heavily to the point where if you are a straight white or asian student whose parents went here, basically don’t bother applying.

the “scholarship” system on offer is not funded by endowments, it’s funded by the “students who can pay” and this causes a tuition spiral where each kid who can foot the bill full freight is funding the attendance of 2 or even 3 students and the price spike means that in order to attend, you either need to be poor enough to get assistance, rich enough to pay 90 grand a year, or be willing to go into crushing, inerasable debt to the state. this barbells student populations among the poor and the very rich further breaking merit and excluding the middle class, especially many whose parents went there and would typically make up a backbone of strong capability and donor base who get excluded as matter of explicit policy. ...

here comes the disintermediation of the university.

it’s the out of favor deep value trade of the century.




... why go do 4 years of bediapered diversity daycare when you can go learn the real stuff from the real people?

why learn from those who cannot do and therefore teach when you can learn from those who are doing and know where the game is at?

why stunt yourself in the same lost years of overpriced warehousing in failing, out of date indoctrination factories?