Defund the Universities, Not the Police By James Reed
I have been running the line, for almost 15 years now about closing down the universities. I got this idea from visiting Sir Walter Crocker back in the 1990s in Adelaide, with my brother. Over a delightful English tea and muffins, we came to this conclusion. “You will have to come to grips with this monster.” Even then he saw that these institutions had been infiltered by the Left and irreparably corrupted. Now there is some movement, at long last among Dissent Right thinkers, to defund the universities, to cut the fangs from the serpent, to starve this nest of killer hornets.
“Modern universities are selling the same product in the same ways for the last 200 years—a long, expensive medieval apprenticeship that is out of touch with the modern world, but its walls fortified and reinforced for self-preservation, self-dealing and self-worth. Robert Hanna, a philosophy Ph.D. from Yale, author and former university professor, escaped from the walled compound of institutionalism, and started “Philosophy Without Borders,” which challenges the elite notion that philosophical knowledge is somehow contained within and under the stewardship of academic faculty, when in fact it is within you, waiting to be cultivated in your own life as a “real” living philosopher, dealing with today’s tangible challenges. If “BLM” wants to shake and disrupt the foundations of elitist control and enslavement, and seek “reparations” and justice, then its target is the walled compound of Harvard Square, not Times Square, nor the shopping village or town square. It is the elite controlling campuses of the country’s intellectual complex at Yale, Chicago, Columbia, Stanford, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Northwestern, and others (like Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics in the UK). These institutions create, guard and propagate the illusions of privilege and class and intellectual ownership—and charge for it, putting you in debtor’s prison.
The nation’s elite research universities are also hosting, indeed eagerly encouraging the transformation of the university campus into an effective “ant farm” of student social and behavioral engineering under the pretext of “biosecurity.” No other universities are so intimately involved in this agenda as the “Ivy” and elite schools. No campus culture embraces, propagates, and indeed creates the policies for a radical fundamentalist “Covidianism” more than the elite colleges. These university administrations are obviously serving as program foot soldiers, and have abdicated their authority to a larger institutional network (e.g., the C.D.C., the Rockefeller and Gates foundations, and W.H.O.) that is “leading from behind,” with political pressure to act in lockstep. At the University of Chicago, for example, this political co-option has been especially formalized, and stems from mutual promises and favor among the Obama-Lightfoot-Sanders “triumvirate.” The University is also acting in lockstep with the Rockefeller Foundation, and certain agencies in law and intelligence. This leaves students with an increasingly difficult but urgent choice: either submit to and comply with the university biosecurity “protocol” including the troubling “Health Pact” contract, along with personal tracing, tracking and “geofencing” or instead, reject the institutional abuse, and disregard for your own sovereignty and privacy, and walk away. At some point you have to learn how to say “No” and not merely line up at the campus sorting platform and be corralled, herded, traced and tracked (and eventually de-loused by “vaccination”).
This is where the basis of real inequality, corruption and division is hiding, and prospering, installed in its ivory tower. It shackles all others with something far more dehumanizing than an entrapped body: an enslaved mind.”
Not bad, but really these places are in direct contradiction to what a knowledge institution should be for a society, being in their very definition based upon universalism, not nationalism. Hence the new class, has always existed among academics, whose only loyalty is to their own class of academics, never the people who pay the bills. This made it effortlessly easy for the Left to move in and take over, with no resistance at all, literal candy from a baby.
It has to end, since almost every fire we have to fight is started in these evil places. To hell with the international student market; time for Australia to get a real job, not more prostitution.
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