"Bad thoughts" and university indoctrination of obversity.

In our too-long attendance at our esteemed alma mater as an undergrad, we remember fondly a Chinese professor who gave us the lowdown on the Chinese communist rule of the PRC. The only forthright statement ever made on the issue of liberty in our time in any class was by the chairman of the Asian Studies Dept. who stated, "Private property is the foundation of liberty."

Sadly, all manner of constitutional distortion passed without a murmur of criticism in our constitutional law class in law school. One of the professors now at said school is interested in "queer theory."

Given this university's

• failure to inculcate an appreciation of political precepts necessary to living as free men,
• indifference to the subversion of our freedoms, and
• provision of employment and prestige to professors with patently queer intellectual interests,

the following post was of great interest:

There is, indeed, a University in the Seattle University District, even if big business is bugging out of there, and a lot of other areas in Seattle, as fast as they can. The University District is pretty much like all the other college and university districts in medium to large American cities today. It provides a living to a small faction of genuine scholars, as well as work space and research facilities and salaries to a host of useful scientists and necessary engineers. But more and more, the main function of our University Districts from coast to coast is to provide a safe-haven for the homeless, the useless, the addicted, the soul-dead, and the politically perverted of all stripes. In addition, the university at the center of these districts currently provides employment for, and benefits to, a host of latter-day hippy professors whose twisted politics, depraved morals and incessant dreams of the destruction of America would make them each persona non grata in most American communities outside of "university districts."

Saturday was an especially good day for seeing the University District as it really is. . . . [T]he streets had been transformed into what can only be described as an open-air Moonbat Mall.

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What didn't pass [from my mind was] the deep sense of ennui and inertia that comes over one when you are exposed, for the Nth time, to all the causes and manias that have festered without change in our University Districts for decades. . . .

Where do these insane yet indestructible ideas come from? How do they replicate themselves over and over, and still find new brains in which to gain traction . . . ? The answer is that they are kept alive and communicable in the Petri dishes of our universities and colleges, and implanted deeply in each new freshman class.

This is obvious to anyone who has been paying attention to the degeneration of the "liberal arts" in higher education into the "liberal hegemony" of higher education. But still, seeing the Moonbat Mall red in tooth and claw, I had to wonder why we allow this all to go on.

"Bad thoughts." American Digest, 5/23/06.

Duffy's comment is great: "Locals in Mass. refer to Amherst as '5 square miles surrounded by reality'."