By Kurt Schlichter
Conservatives should welcome the decline of academia as we know it.
I, for one, will celebrate its death by engaging in the same activity
that characterized my four years at what some call its pinnacle – drinking a lot of Coors Light.
There is still nostalgia among conservatives, especially older ones
who have forgotten what college is really like, for the idea of higher
education as a rigorous venue for intellectual growth, an environment of
exciting and vibrant ideas shared by wise, caring educators dedicated
to the pursuit of truth.
Today, it is nothing of the sort.
For the vast majority of traditional, liberal arts students, college
is a four-year blur of cheap alcohol and tawdry hooks-ups, with their
few sober moments characterized by interaction with pony-tailed TAs
spouting off about “patriarchal paradigms” and trying to pick up on cute
sophomores. Worse, this bacchanalia will saddle the participants with a
couple hundred thousand in student debt that they get to carry off into
real life, where they will discover that the only thing their degrees
in Comparative Norwegian Feminist Literature qualify them for is
exciting careers in the world of artisanal coffee retailing.
Call it the College-Progressive Complex. The first part consists of
the schools themselves, with their herds of administrators, professors
and impoverished grad students chasing the brass tenure ring. Think of
it as a liberal tick, sucking blood and growing fatter off the efforts
of Americans who actually produce something while contributing nothing
to society except the clearly secondary contributions of those few in the fields of science and mathematics.
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