The Issue with Higher Learning

The issue is postmodernism. If there's no truth, and only power, then you teach kids that instead of how to come to conclusions, or find truth in what other people are saying. It's basically antagonistic to reason, and kids are being taught that everything, from history, to math to science is part of a Western Patriarchy, that is oppressive and needs to be pulled down brick by brick. They also elevate things like the French Revolution and Mao's rise to power, and believe that people ought to live a minimal existence. They're kind of dull, actually. And pretentious. But generally, Gen Z was taught that there is no persuasive force to reason, and that all there is is power and exerting one's own force of authority on other people.

It is about Wokeness though. Avoiding it, is avoiding the whole factor that's causing the decline of our education system. Like, you have entire departments in the University that police speech and professor's conduct, searching for the least bit of offense in what they might have to say. I know, because I had a confrontation with one of those people, from the aspect of a student. It is entirely DEI and CRT and Queer Theory that's causing the academic system to fall apart. Because if you can't institute and pass down the tradition that has built our country and made it strong, you have another tradition, which is weak, but also top down authoritarian. And that's what the kids are being taught. How to obey power structures, not question it, and go with the mob of other students.

But it is an actual issue. That's like someone having pneumonia, and you say, "Well, the pneumococcal bacteria is not the issue, but rather the fever is, so we'll give them pain killers and Tylenol." Talking about structural issues in university and underpaid adjuncts it not the issue. It's the issue for underpaid adjuncts, but not the students. The students are being taught all the wrong things, and this problem goes way back to the 80s and sometimes even to the 60s, and there's enough of these kinds of professors now, that they're starting to catalyze the West's decline. And they're in Primary and Secondary schools, too, teaching kids this garbage. It is the complete issue. It is the whole entire thing. It is the pneumonia killing the person. And trying to avoid it, by doing the x-rays and saying, "Well it's the dead tumor causing the cough," will kill the patient.

An education is not about making money. It's about pursuing truth, and learning the tradition. Which, the colleges have done an abysmal job at doing, and turned Colleges into these paycheck factories. Basically, you go eyeball in debt, to get a degree and go work at an HR department, or in mid level management. Which, the Confucian angle, names need to be ordered, and those names are not being ordered. That's the first principle of anything, is to have your names ordered, and make sure Genius is being fulfilled in your population. Neither of those conditions are being met.

[People] need to study the humanities [too]. Having better language processing skills enables you to do all your work better. It helps root out myopias, and helps you understand the larger picture. Like, people are not getting that humanities education, so they're not understanding the point of Liberalism or Western Freedom. They're not being instilled that tradition--mostly because the professors think it's pretentious, and would rather result back to a thousand rabbit holes none of which gets you to a good destination--but you need to have the Humanities in order to make a balanced student. Like I said, it's about passing down the tradition. You need to have everyone on the same page, and not have everyone fractured and fighting against one another. And generally, that tradition has to be rooted in the truth, otherwise it just gets fractured anyway, or policed by the governing bodies.