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Smearing JocksBy lex, on January 1st, 2010
January 1st, 2010 | Tags: culture | Category: Politics and Culture
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Funny, I had viewed earlier this morning, courtesy of Ed Driscoll and PM, a video clip done by the lovely (and very nice) Mary Katharine Ham about this incident.
http://bit.ly/8FZTeF
The Guild of the Tenured appears to be almost untouchable in any meaningful sense and they definitely protect their own.
Seperated by a common language.
I thought you were talking Jocks, of the Scotch variety, like Gordon Brown, our lunatic PM.
I wouldn’t call brown a lunatic. I would call him mad or daft.
Jocks? Do I hear “Black Bear” playing in the background?
One would think that education that eradicates this sort of thing, instead it (in many cases) breeds arrogance, pride, and hypocrisy.
“Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.” –La Rochefoucauld
These people are burrowed into the fabric of our society so deeply that even a million-man Army playing “whack-a-mole” with these guys would not serve to eradicate them from their grip on the tiller of the academic ship. I fear it will take their natural deaths for an entire generation of academics to loose their grip on the ability to influence society. But even this may not be enough. They have thoroughly inculcated their world-view down to K-12 teacher training now, let alone manning the gates of tenure to ensure that only their own acolytes follow behind them. This state of affairs is one of the reasons I despair. Stalin achieved his grip on the Communist Party via his control of the administrative process as party secretary. Likewise, the extreme post-modern post-colonial, GL, transgendered, Focultian, multi-culti anti-military pacifist, PC straight white hetro-hating crowd now has such a death grip on the education process that I cannot conceive of how it can be removed/reversed. Hell, the general population doesn’t even know there is a problem yet, let alone feel moved to gird their loins for the Herculean, Sisyphusian
task of setting the academic ship straight.
Agree that it will take a few generations to correct the problem, if it can be solved. The Academic Guild will fight mightily to keep their privileged position, as though they are not serving or beholden to society, and the taxpayer.
I like Tim’s idea of starving them out (financially).
There is NO right to attend a college or university on the taxpayer, nor is it necessary to do so to become an “educated” person.
There is a similarity between those who say that the taxpayer owes it to subsidize a four year degree, even though the person may not be qualified to go to college, and those who say the taxpayer should subsidize the mortgage for anyone who wants to buy a home. They “deserve” it. I think not.
Virgil,
there’s a very simply solution to this problem: Starve them out.
The explosion in tenured positions of the leftist/marxist sort is directly related to the availability of College Loans and Grants.
Stop College Loans & Grants at the Government level. Make the student go to a commercial lender and prove their credit-worthiness. Cease and desist any and all grants for higher education from the government. Make the universities use their massive trust funds and endowments to give out grants to those they deem worthy.
College is HIGHER education. Their is NO RIGHT to a college education, nor should there be. It is a product, a commodity, just like an automobile, a sailboat, or a case of beer. You work for money, and you save to get the things you really want and need.
I paid for my own college entirely out of my own pocket. No loans, no grants, no nothing. I worked long hours, but I left college with no debts. If I can do it, so can others, and that is EXACTLY what I told my own kids. I refuse to pay a penny for my kid’s college education. If they want to go, THEY can arrange the finances. So far, it’s worked just ducky. But I digress.
By having easily obtainable, government-secured college loans, and government grants, there has been an explosion of kids going to college who have absolutely no business being there. It’s time we culled the herd, and starved the disease of liberalism at the source.
I with you on that Tim. The Son&Heir had NROTC covering his tuition when he started this fall. He had to cover his living expenses and took loans for those. He really disliked the thought of debt — big distraction for him as a student (I appreciate his instinct/aversion).
He begged off the NROTC commitment and enlisted in DEP. Ships to MCRD this Sunday.
AW1, Virg, 603, Ron
Couldn’t agree with you guys more. Been beating this drum for a while, although I try to be lenient and allow the GI bill for whatever you want (if you’ve served your country honorably it’s your choice) but limit federal financial aid for qualified civilians to engineering and medicine basically. Essentially practical vocational training only that’s a service to the country. It’s a big part of the Left’s scheme to make college a “right” so they can pump out even more dumbed-down, indoctrinated voting machines.
But the problem is as bad as Virg points out. I graduated with an MS in Aero from UCLA in 05. Definitely one of the more liberal schools, yes, but THE most liberal department (with THE dumbest freakin students, I mean seriously couldn’t figure out how to breathe while at the same time tying their shoes dim-witted) was the education department. Be afraid. Be very afraid. There are definitely some good teachers, but many of our kids are NOT in good hands. And they get away with it because school teacher as a profession is, rightly, one of the most respected in the country. But this respect for the field is being used as a shield for the sappers.
Prowler/
Most of the problem with education majors is the result of the unintended consequences of the femminist movement opening up the professions to women of intelligence and talent where heretofore they had been restricted primarily to nursing and teaching; hence both professions were populated up thru the late 50s-early 60s with a generally high caliber of individual. Currently the entering freshman class of most universities in which freshmen declare a major is comprised of those who avg scores as a group ranked in the lowest quintile on their SATs and graduating education majors have GPAs also averaging in the lowest quintile of graduates.
Interesting point. Believe it or not had never really thought about the why before, but what you say at least passes the plausible and logical meter, and since you seem like a trustworthy type of guy I’ll take your word for it.
I’m not against women being able to pursue any profession they want by any stretch of the imagination, but unintended consequence indeed. I think where the feminist movement goes wrong is trying to produce an equality of result between the sexes and try to push men and women to act beyond their nature. Obviously men and women are not just physically different but chemically/emotionally/mentally/psychologically so. Women are naturally wired to be better primary school teachers, nurses, stay at home parents, etc. than men on average (they are far more emotionally sensitive and nurturing, which are GREAT things for society at large!). One of the disturbing trends I witnessed at UCLA, which I think has wreaked havoc in the younger generation’s ability to have fulfilled lives and meaningful relationships, was a bizarre sense by women that they had to be horn-dogs and sleep around like crazy while avoiding the “oppression” of a long term relationship to prove their feminist, won’t let their lives be controlled by evil men bona fides. Sexual liberation has sadly transmogrified into culturally encouraged skankitude as a badge of social-do-gooder honor and sophistication. Although initially a boon to the college age males even for them it proves unsatisfying and stunting in their ability to develop into responsible men and husbands, to say nothing of women turning themselves into “pieces of meat” while screaming not to be treated like “pieces of meat.” Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes . . . tsk, tsk.
Prowler, there is a blog site called “Whiskey’s Place” in which our man Whiskey (a SoCal-based guy) lays it all out about the new feminist man-woman relationships. Has some really interesting statistics about “Alpha Male-Beta Male” female preference conflict and how it plays out socially and economically–and how TV and Movie programming reflects this. Go over there and browse back thru the last 12 months worth of posts (he posts infreq, as topic posts, so not a Herculean task) to get a flavor of what he is driving at. He also comments freq over at Wretchard’s place (Belmont Club) at PJ Media using this theme as explanatory power for much of the Dems success with women and the influence of the single white professional “SWPL”-type female on public policy.
Prowler,
You might also want to see a small post I placed on my blog here:
http://aw1tim.vox.com/library/post/women-socialism-and-cause-effect.html
It has a link to a very good article by another blogger whose work I like.
Virg, AW1
Thanks, will gladly check out those links
AW1
Good article and interesting thesis. Although I think women are chemically more wired by their nature to want nanny-statism and it isn’t entirely explained by their social position / what they think will benefit them. I agree with the article that that is probably the case for blacks and hispanics, but the naturally ingrained mental/psychological differences between men and women (regardless of race) are significant whereas if there are any differences between the races they are not. Nanny-statism seems to inexorably follow female suffrage in history.
I recently saw a poll on the Afghan war broken down between male and female response, with the options being: Surge, Go home, don’t know. I forget the actual numbers but for men the list in declining order was: Surge, do home, don’t know. For women: Go home, don’t know, surge. Women are more nurturing and far less aggressive. Overall this is good for society but probably not for fighting wars, or for entrepreneurialism for that matter, which is why women will never support war at large, be an equal proportion of people in the military or the boardroom, etc. I don’t think this is a bad thing though and can’t figure out why some people do. Oh well.
As a Music Education undergrad I and my fellow musicians were regularly appalled by the intelligence and skill levels of many of the plain old Education students we encountered. Some teachers in the School of Education even went so far as to tell us (we had to take literacy pedagogy, history of education, and other general classes in education) that they regularly assumed Music Majors were going to ace their classes with little effort while the regular teachers-in-training worked their tails off for respectable grades). We took G.E. classes like English and sciences very seriously, but our School of Education classes were always a joke.
For example, our classes in music pedagogy were incredibly rigorous in terms of lesson-planning/justification, child development, and actual application (numerous, highly-critiqued “live” lessons with children). When I was first asked to “create a lesson plan” for an Education class, I was stunned to find that writing “We will read Chapter 3 of Book X and the children will use Pair-Share (get into groups that share with class) to write two questions they think will be on the test” was considered adequate. For comparison’s sake: a lesson plan for 20 minutes of music teaching would have to include an outline with statement of goal, list of techniques/theories to be employed, direct list of learning standards that would be met, list of equipment/prep needed, and summary of steps (including opening review/prep with students, presentation of new material/learning, then review/reinforcement and closing activity, all with notations of key words/actions that would be used for each step).
Make my head hurt!
Fbl,
I was a music major. I very much wanted to earn a degree in Music, but it wasn’t meant to be. I switched majors when I realized that my college had no interest in musicians, only in cranking out music teachers.
The great decline in education standards, and the lowering of the bar for students came when the Unions got the legislators to require teaching certificates that mandated “X” hours of “education” classes. Once the Teacher’s Unions got that into law, anyone wishing to teach would HAVE to enroll and pay for the brainwashing classes at the university gulag, and toe the party line if they wanted to be a teacher.
Now we have a bunch of educated idiots and ideological sycophants running the public school system. We let these vipers into our own nests, and they have done their best to kill our young.
AW1 TIM, You can still get that music degree. I work on mine several nights a week out in the garage. I’m majoring in loud drumming whilst matriculating at the “University of Pissed Neighbors.”
BTW, Thanks for stopping by my site the other day. stephen
FbL
Yeah, my cousin was a music major. 8 hours of practice in addition to maybe 8 hours of class a day. Music major’s no joke.
Similar experience with my electives in college. I would be up to 2AM banging my head against the wall and slaughtering chickens to get B’s in my engineering classes. Now, my momma tells me I’m smart so maybe I’m just lucky, but remember distinctly the electives being so lickity-split easy it wasn’t even funny. An A grade was probably less than an hour’s worth of work a week. I remember two classes in particular, Macro-Economics (which I stopped even attending the class) and Egyptology (where I kept going only because it was a cute chick haven) where I literally spent about 4 hours studying the day of the final exam and did nothing else every day of the quarter (since nothing else, not even homework, was actually required) and got straight A’s. It was pathetic.
Liberal arts colleges are not schools anymore. They are year long summer camps for immature teens who think they’re mature (because they’re in college) to drink and screw every night, and participate in groupthink.
I call this the “Al Sharpton Effect.” Poor little Tawana Brawley. The truth wasn’t important, it was the message that counted; Those over-privileged white folks are the enemy. These so called “leaders” of the black community make racism worse. As a non-black how can you not hold these “leaders”, and by extension, their blind faith followers in disdain. But the real story is that they have to perpetuate racism because therein lies the source of their power and money.
Remember this. This is one reason I cojoled/connived/pushed/schemed/bribed both of my boys into engineering. As far as the current administration’s thoughts about education, two words will suffice; KEVIN JENNINGS. nuff said. Stephen
Stephen: Is that the real YOU in your pic on your blog? LOL, I was afraid to click to enlarge–that beard makes me skeered!
Welcome to the blogosphere and a happy New Year!!
PS: Or maybe it was the hat…
Gotta be the hat. Should be a fine grey felt slouch hat. That is one handsome beard he has.
Joe, you seem to sporting quite the chin warmer yourself there. I kinda like it in a totally non-sexual way.
(doffs hat and bows to Stephen) Thank you, sir. Nothing sexual at all about admiring masculinity and manliness in another.
If I ever want a divorce, all I need to do is become clean shaven (unless for health or job reasons).
The pic looks like a composite of real and Anime (or is it Hentai?). The face a beard look real, the hat doesn’t.
Scottish, not Japanese.
Yup, self portrait. I figured that when all the really pretty women call you mister, what’s the point. I think it’s the Scottish coming out in the beard. The hat; http://www.sunbody.com/index.cfm This one comes blank in form from Guatemala. You wet it up, shape it up, sit back and wait for reactions. These Guatemalan palm leaf hats are a by product of an emerging democratic free market society down there, and given the astuteness of the pack of salty dogs that hang around here, I really don’t need to go into the whole recitation of recent events in that country. Suffice it to say that I’m not a big fan of our government’s reaction to a Chavez wannabe’s bluff being called LEGALLY by his countrymen.
What they were doing was not so much smearing jocks as it was smearing white people. I betcha they _lurve_ the basketball jocks. Lacrosse isn’t even very “jockish” (thuggish) most places, though it is a genuine old-fashioned gentleman’s violent sport,like fencing.
It’s also one of the “whitest” of collegiate sports, which is funny considering who invented it. Didn’t Pontiac take an important British fort with his men’s lacrosse clubs?
P.s. Somewhere near Detroit, I believe?
JTG, I wonder if it is too late to sell Detroit to the Brits? I’m pretty sure Canada would not want it.
Hell, Ron, offer it to the the Saudi’s–they’ve got the money and half their brethren are living there now anyway….
Also, according to pictures taken from orbit, Detroit is quite literally the greenest of all American cities. Betcha there’s some good dove and pheasant shootin’ there.
Virgil, I had noted in a recent post the demographic stats of the area. Detroit proper was a mess when I lived there in the ’75-’85 timeframe, and it has gotten much worse. I believe that Detroit and the surrounding area, especially Dearborn, has the highest concentration of Muslims in the country.
Makes sense that, as JTG noted, Detroit is green. Minimal traffic in the city and half the buildings are empty, so there are minimal CO2 emissions. In the last fifty years the city has lost about half its population.
I was born and (mis)spent my youth about 60 miles west of Detroit -hunting and trapping was excellent.
Ron, there is a web-site somewhere (can’t remember where off-hand) that has nothing but photos of abandoned Detroit houses overtaken by vegetation to the point of being nothing so much as out-sized topiary–which is the point of the site–the artistic result from nature reclaiming it’s territory. I guess the roaming wolves come next…..
Virgil, here is one site, not Detroit, that shows things like that: http://www.artificialowl.net/
and:
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html
BINGO, Joe! The second site, “Sweet Juniper”-Feral Houses in Det. is EXACTLY the one I remembered. And I’ve also run across the other one also. You have either a prodigious memory or unlimited bookmark capacity–or both–you’re a better man than,,,er,,,,well,,depends on what capacity.
If you ask my wife at JUST the right time, Joe, she’ll tell you I’m pretty much ahead of the pack on bovine stupidity, you’ve got some work to do to catch up, I tell ya. LOL.
Virgil – there is this little thing called “google” – silly name, I know. But you can find all sorts of stuff there. Type something like ‘photos of abandoned structures’ into the little box, hit enter, and you can find all sorts of stuff.
The first site, artificalowl, I remembered someone on this site had posted a link to, and I remembered a photo of a PBY abandoned in the desert. So I searched “PBY in the desert”
Who says trivia is useless?
Virgil & Joe: Two-legged wolves have been there for a long time. I’ve read numerous reports of coyotes in Detroit over the past decade or so. Great environment for them.
There is some extraordinary art (murals, etc.) and architecture in the city, most of it dating from roughly the early 1900′s thru 1950 or so. It really was sad seeing beautiful buildings, blocks and neighborhoods going “feral”.
One of my brothers also lived in Detroit and went into many of those abandoned buildings and homes.
Until he was found dead in a Detroit park, shot, an apparent robbery victim. Almost doesn’t need to be said that the perp was never found, Detroit even back then having an overabundance of possible suspects. He was a much more trusting person than I (my tendency is to not allow people around me or mine that are clearly drug users, leeches, slugs or a threat to me). He wanted to help people, and I suspect that caught up to him. Even when his neighborhood was rapidly going downhill he refused to move because “if all the good people leave, the neighboorhood can never recover”. His wife eventually remarried and moved out into the country. Not sure that the closest family member to him, one of my older sisters, ever got over his death.
I admit to being a bit biased, but IMO Detroit is a cesspool primarily due to the reasons that Moynihan stated in his 1965 report, and the greed of the UAW.
Ron, slightly OT, but as long as we’re talking about wolves & coyotes, did you know that much of previously heavily populated rural north-eastern Europe is now being reclaimed by wolves in numbers not seen since the days of the Tzars? This is all due in large part to the “how ya gonna keep em down on the farm” mass move to the cities and change in industrial and farming policies that we are currently seeing in the rural mid-west here where small towns are slowly dying all over the place, in conjunction with white Europeans failing to reproduce themselves at replacement rates–self imposed genetic suicide.
And yes, there are a couple of sites (again, I cant remember where–ask Joe-in-northern Cali–dollars to donuts he has the site at his fingertips) that feature all the abandoned factories and grand hotels, etc., sad, sad, very painful to view. One bright spot (but I don’t know how they can make a go of it in today’s economy) is the final, successful re-hab of the Detroit Cadillac Hotel–a grand project for sure for one of America’s former Grandee Hotels. But I fear it’s like trying to bail out the ocean with a bucket. Sadly, in just a few more years everything there will be better utilized as a hunting preserve…
Virgil, had not heard about the wolves of NE Europe. Just did a quick search and am impressed by their growth in numbers and how close they are to populated areas.
I’ve heard them howl while hunting & camping in MI, MT, ID and CO. When I did a week-long backpacking trip in a remote part of Yellowstone, we heard them, but never saw one. Hearing wolves howl, especially at night when out in the wilds, is very memorable.
Under normal circumstances the only two animals in NA that I would not care to be within a stone’s throw distance of in the woods are a grizzly or a mountain lion.