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October 25, 2014

By the 21st century, America had become a country of many universities and little education.

Her colleges were mostly diploma mills crossed with asylums for the politically insane: howling Bluestockings, inventors of “Afrocentric history,” mewling “advocates” for the blind, the botched, and the bewildered.
Frequently, these defectives pooled their neuroses and formed a coalition that took over the campus, turning it into a small, ivy covered North Korea. Any student who dared dispute their ideology of cultural Marxism swiftly felt the hand of “revolutionary justice.” Students still arrived, despite appalling tuition bills, because they needed the sheepskin. America had come to value credentials over performance, so anyone without a college degree remained a bottom-feeder for life. Universities were a classic socialist set-up: a monopoly that produced crap at high prices. Many were little more than vending machines; insert your $250,000, pull the lever, and get your diploma.
- - Victoria: Chapter 31

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 25, 2014 4:32 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 25, 2014 7:51 PM

I loved "...a classic socialist set-up: a monopoly that produced crap at high prices."

Much like unions and their decades-long monopoly over the cost of labor, whose members now whine to the gubmint about "corporate greed" now that all the manufacturing has been moved to more affordable shores that don't have artificially inflated labor costs.

Still trying to decide if the final solution here was ... strategically optimal (originally wrote "justified", but ultimately decided that, yes, it was justified).

In the world portrayed by this novella, where human labor would be dear, my personal inclination might have been to sentence these cultists to hard labor, for life. Less messy (literally and figuratively), less risky (no potential for martyrs) and after decades of parasitical uselessness, they would provide some tangible service to their fellow man (at long last).

Posted by: AGoyAndHisBlog [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 25, 2014 8:13 PM

What is passing for a student that has been publicly schooled isn't one that can be educated; they don't have the foundation to support the structure. They can be patterned, like one can do with a lower order life form.

One might get them to dress themselves, at least in a manner that doesn't upset the dogs, function in an automated setting and at least some of the time arrive on time.

I was the recipient of 12 years of Catholic school education: '48-'60. That did two things for me, one was educated the hell out of me and two, finish organized religion as something meaningful in my life.

what I see and hear from today "savants" assures me that there really is a slippery slope and the movie"Idiocracy" embodied it.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 26, 2014 6:27 AM

My sloppy hairbrained homeschooling, hit and miss, did a better job with my girls than the public schooling their friends had, by a long shot. I bet college level would be the same.

Posted by: pbird [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 26, 2014 7:44 AM

You can't even count on a good Catholic education anymore. You have to do it yourself, these days.

Posted by: Mother Effingby [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 26, 2014 10:49 PM

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