Back at you, john ;^)

We are quite in accord! We do need to take back over the schools - they are not a 'safe place' to dump the theoretically tame socialists with which we do not want to deal.

Jan

and that may be part of the reason that they are taking over,
after 115 or so years of stealthily prying our freedoms
from our warm, live fingers. . we must become more
responsible with our freedoms, imho!!! -- j
.

ah! . another chance to upvote this wonderful contributor
named freeforall, almost!!! -- j
.

the whole import of the RAH quote is the same as Rand's:::
the truly important people are rare, like Galt and Dagny
and Rearden and Francisco and ..... !!! -- j

p.s. this is not meant to disparage the wonderful
average people who keep this planet going. . we
owe our lives to them, but they do not make the
future grow like the top few. . that's my story
and I'm stickin' to it.
.

I couldn't disagree more with Heinlein on this one. I love his stuff, but he was a misanthrope.

AR was not, nor am I.
It is not necessary to disparage the average to worship the supreme.

The average man is a rational being and lives a rational life within the scope of his awareness.

The proof is self-evident.
A person truly incapable of rational thought is mentally deficient and requires assistance to survive. The average man does not.

Of course, few have educated themselves as we have, so they don't show the intellectual clarity some of us possess.
But the fact that most people have never even heard of Austrian Economics is not their fault - but ours. It is our responsibility to get the WORD out, to argue, show and persuade.

Of course they will believe what they hear repeated over and over again from trusted sources. Who doesn't. It is a common problem - one we share from time-to-time. (Any "ditto-heads" among us?)

The average man is good - not bad;
Is reasonably smart - certainly not stupid;
And just want's to be left alone to live his life, raise his family and retire in peace.

To my mind - the only people who call them sheep - are wolves.

Oh, did I misunderstand? Was the initiator of the
shredding doing some undercover exposure of the
college?-- Still, that seems like a case of entrap-
ment, like encouraging a crime to be committed in
order to punish it.

Were those items on the side really true? Were
they from the news?
As to Vassar, is it public or private? Either way,
it's a disgrace to the human race.
So the Constitution is "not a philosophically
perfect document", as seemed to be admitted
once by Harry Binswanger in The Objectivist
Forum. Even so, it is the best document im-
mediately available for the protection of our rights. (Written Objectivist philosophy may be
purer, but it is not in place as a legally enforce-
able tool). That Vassar student who presented
it to be shredded, is, in my book, a contemptible
piece of trash. And people with college degrees
are supposed to be more employable? Ha ha
HA!!!

What a stupid, meaningless publicity stunt on the part of the "undercover" idiot and his employer.

Very repugnant.

the administration of these schools must be products of the public school system.

I agree on the institutional bias for socialism, but this sort of a fabricated Sting operation is dismaying. We are supposed_to_be ethically better than they are.


Jan

Colleges today are hotbeds of socialism. If I had children about ready to go to college, I wouldnt send them or pay for it. Get out in the world and make something of yourself. College wont help with that really.

The Constitution... what a great document. It gives these educators the ability to express their addle-minded criticism of the document that gives them the right to criticize. Does that qualify as irony?

I would just change the quote to, "most people won't think," and leave the rest intact. If you're human, you're capable of thinking. If you don't, it's because you refuse to. Some are ignorant, but to their degree of skill, they do, even if not very well. The last sentence is spot on.

I know. It made me squirm to watch it. These people she's talking to are just mindless idiots. Poor tactics here, I think.

Agreed, Zen.
Today the Gulch seems to be flooded with BS articles that should never have been published (imo.)

this is a process of exposing the degree of institutional bias
which exists in higher education, and the insidious nature
of the bias might warrant unusual means, don't you think?
this kind of ingrown bias is ruining the u.s. -- j
.

Thank You for the Heinlein quote!!! -- j
.

So, Project Veritas sends a reporter to create an incident and then reports on it? The reporter pretends to be distressed at seeing the Constitution and lures some professors into 'helping her' by shredding copies of the Constitution in front of her.

And then she films them and sends the clips to the conservative group for which she works, to discredit the colleges for which the professors work.

Huh? I don't like anything about either side of this.

Jan, did I get this right?

Giving these people any attention whatsoever, is as ridiculous as is their inanity.
What purpose does it serve to publicize such ignorance and idiocy?
Imagine how fruitless the lives of these people would be if no-one paid them any attention at all.

"Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self -delusion— in the long run, these are the only people who count." —Robert A. Heinlein

What the actual ****. I can't believe this is real.