With people like Gates, I believe it is a matter of image spurred by guilt. He became rich beyond his wildest dreams and as a result, doesn't want to fit the image of the rich guy who is the power behind many of the evils in the world. To make himself more angelic, he espouses the liberal causes and claims to be just one of the guys -- only richer. (Much richer.)

Thanks, MichaelA.

Don't vorry. Ve gonna do it.

When I was in college, the stupid arguments had mostly revolved around the philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre. The novel "The Catcher In The Rye" had everyone talking. I was involved in satirizing everything I encountered including drawing a picture of "The Thinker" sitting on a toilet which was published in the student newspaper and caused an uproar when the editor and myself were put to task for it. How things have changed. The picture wouldn't cause a blink today. Sartre would cause a fit of boredom. To be and activist would be to rail against segregation and march about fighting for that cause. Looking back, I'd say we were sweet innocents compared to today's college activists.

Well, I haven't seen the video. The librarian said
they didn't have any more headphones. (The ones
I have used previously have not always worked). I'd
like it better if words to articles were simply put on the screen so I could read them. But then, I am getting older (I have always been cantan-
kerous). Anyway, I thought that the Supreme
Court had already ruled that "money is speech"
before. Just how many Yale students did sign
that petition?

Interesting, FelixO. So what you are proposing is an ultimately futile process in which some small % of the people who reject the nihilistic culture become successful. These people are despised and outvoted by the remaining 90+%.

This does not explain the Bill Gates of the world, who become successful but obviously subscribe to the major cultural philosophy.

Jan

Is it not? The circular logic of "I have the freedom to say I do not want to have the freedom to say...etc" is rather stunning. Thanks to broskjold for pointing that out so succinctly and to you for posting this disturbing thread.

broskjold: You have a nice Nordic name. Ever thought of starting a marine-based tax reclamation business?

Jan

In 18th century England, it was popular to call Oxford students "Ninnies," and to call the institute, the "Ninnyversity." Funny how history repeats itself.
However, even though such a petition is the height of stupidity, it is attacking the very foundations of the country and freedom itself. Therefore, it must be taken seriously. Do any of the morons asking for signatures have a motive other than a lack of understanding? Or, are they merely among Lenin's "useful idiots?"

Q: What can we do about ignorance and apathy?
A: I don't know and I don't care.

There is no room for my kind in academia any more. I taught physics and astronomy at both the undergrad and graduate level and I tried to make it clear that critical thinking was an essential part of science. I was informed that insisting on independent thought opened the door to criticism where I could be labeled a bigot and a homophobe. I never tried to understand that kind of reasoning.

Enough to keep the kids out of the house, which they have probably paid since the kids were very young.

Have nothing to say other than, I'm reeling. Present and future puppets of the globalization movement.

And just how much are their parents paying for an Ivy League education!

Would you please get back into the classroom. You are needed.

God Help America! Her 1965 article on the student rebellion needs reprinting.

Brits must had some dysfunctional teachers who would engage in "dark sarcasm in the classroom."
I graduated from college without encountering hardly any of those, though I do recall a sadistic mental case who taught biology in the tenth grade.
On the college level, I recall enduring more of the dysfunctional "educated beyond their means" types for teachers. .
My college years were late 60s--early 70s before my generation created teachers of socialism and political correctness.

It has been going on for years. Started in the 20th century and is just continuing to continue.

There is a reason the "1%" are where they are....they have not become a society of "Soccer Moms'" hell bent on protecting their "Lil Johnnys" from harm
Security and protection are the overwhelming paradigm of anyone born after 1980. Fiorina talking about a Warrior Class (military leaders allowed to perform as such) breaks this mold. The Ivy League has been for decades the central ground zero for enlightenment. I believe Rubio made the statement that "welders make more money than philosophers", although statistically incorrect, was genuinely correct as they MAKE money. The "philosopher class" coming from our universities do not MAKE money, they provide opinion in conjunction with their class guilt. Yale? Princeton? Harvard? well many liberal arts schools... use this propaganda because their Professors MAKE very little money. Their product: convoluted thinking based on Marxist fog. Roll the ball to Johnny and "Johnny don't use your head".

As a recovering college professor I am, unfortunately, not surprised at this latest outrage. Our "institutions of higher learning" have become nothing more than brainwashing facilities and "re-education centers". The level of ignorance of our graduates is both appalling and dangerous. When someone graduating from an "Ivy League" college does not recognize the Bill of rights and its significance the republic is in grave danger.

db why are you amazed? All of the college students that exist in the country for the most part are products of government schools. As I have said before they do not know the concept of "thinking".
The illustrious congress of the usa has approved the budget for the idiot that occupies the w.h. They too are products of government schools so they do not know the concept of thinking.
So, yes we are doomed and will ultimately find ourselves deeper into socialism which we are in now and will see more and more of the country become Islamic. all because of a educational system that died a slow death starting about 1900. welcome to the new world order.