{"id":82713,"date":"2022-07-08T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82713"},"modified":"2022-07-07T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:41:20","slug":"it-tolls-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82713","title":{"rendered":"It tolls for thee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s the saddest thing you’ll read today<\/a>. An anthropology professor at UCLA is retiring early, another casualty of the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The principal driver of the doublethink in my department and so many others at UCLA is fear of the woke faction.<\/p>

Signs of this fear are omnipresent. Discussing whether to stop requiring the GRE (a standardized test, like the SAT) from applicants to our Ph.D. program, one colleague told a meeting of the biological anthropology subfield that he regarded the GRE as the most informative part of an applicant\u2019s dossier, but that we had no choice but to vote to stop requiring it. Why? Because otherwise we would be regarded as racists. (I was the only person to vote against dropping the GRE requirement).<\/p>

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Why am I pessimistic? For a few reasons.<\/p>

First, the younger faculty tend to be far more woke than their elders. Second, administrators and student protesters perform elaborately choreographed routines that inevitably end with the former enacting policies that they wanted to enact anyway, for which the latter\u2019s public temper tantrums serve as a pretext. Third, now that standardized tests have been dropped from undergraduate application requirements, a growing number of students will be simultaneously unable to handle university level coursework, and predisposed to denounce their professors for heresy, having been chosen for admission on the basis on their leftist activism as high school students. Meanwhile, California\u2019s K-12 schools are increasingly substituting mind-damaging political indoctrination for education.<\/p>

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The rise of alternative institutions, like the University of Austin and Ralston College, are very hopeful signs even though the work is slow-going. But until those new schools are built, I can\u2019t bear to spend one more moment in a place that\u2019s morally and intellectually bankrupt.<\/p>

That\u2019s it: I\u2019m getting out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Vast swaths of the culture have fallen behind the Woke Curtain. None more so than academia. Not surprising, since it was the incubator for this plague. I believe that eventually the woke madness will burn itself out because it is not a natural human state. But, untold damage will be done before that happens. Communism is a fair example. It is not natural for people to live effectively as prisoners in a police state and it couldn’t last, but it took a generation or two for the Iron Curtain to fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young people whose heads are being filled with this swill are a lost cause. They won’t be reasoned with. They’ll continue to slither into society and infect the HR departments and faculty lounges and press rooms board rooms where they end up. We’ll have to wait till they fade from the scene, and that, sadly, will be a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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