Yes Agreed. This article is well said... and fair comment. Something that is still not well understood by most conservatives (outside its intellectual ecosystem) is that key to the 'Progressive' dismantling of their nation's traditional values these past 30 years is that – crucially in its early stages – it managed to advance largely und…
Yes Agreed. This article is well said... and fair comment. Something that is still not well understood by most conservatives (outside its intellectual ecosystem) is that key to the 'Progressive' dismantling of their nation's traditional values these past 30 years is that – crucially in its early stages – it managed to advance largely under the MSM radar. The performance of conservative politicians has been a textbook case in strategic failure. They started with all the advantage on their side; in particular an American public with solidly conservative instincts. The failure was to let themselves be blindsided by the enemy’s secret weapon...... its longstanding grip on the institutions of ‘higher education’. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Good points, Graham, but, truth be told, the problem is not so much that the Leftist takeover of the universities "blindsided" Conservatives, it's that they (and most other people outside of academia) just didn't think it mattered all that much... The idea was, "yeah, they teach that Leftist BS in college, but wait to those kids hit 'the Real World,' then they will straighten out," not realizing that ideas do matter, and if you have two generations or more of college grads almost entirely programmed to be "Progressives," then they and their wacky ideas will slowly, almost imperceptibly, take over the society--starting in the HR department of every corporation. And here we are.
Basically what happened is this: in the early 70s, in the aftermath of the radicalism and chaos of the 60s, the universities were given over to the Left under the assumption that they can't really cause any trouble there. Better those radicals be working on a PhD than building bombs, was the idea. Wrongo, and catastrophically so, it turned out. The Left's "long march through the institutions" started with academia, and now we are forced to deal with the results.
"The academy is the fountainhead of our culture" huh? Well friend, hate to tell you but that our "fountainhead" has been spewing raw sewage for a generation or more. You need to get informed.
True. Paulo Freire’s Maoist child education notions are the schoolteacher’s Bible. Francis Fukuyama-minded complacency made the Classical liberals underestimate its reach and breadth.
Yes Agreed. This article is well said... and fair comment. Something that is still not well understood by most conservatives (outside its intellectual ecosystem) is that key to the 'Progressive' dismantling of their nation's traditional values these past 30 years is that – crucially in its early stages – it managed to advance largely under the MSM radar. The performance of conservative politicians has been a textbook case in strategic failure. They started with all the advantage on their side; in particular an American public with solidly conservative instincts. The failure was to let themselves be blindsided by the enemy’s secret weapon...... its longstanding grip on the institutions of ‘higher education’. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Good points, Graham, but, truth be told, the problem is not so much that the Leftist takeover of the universities "blindsided" Conservatives, it's that they (and most other people outside of academia) just didn't think it mattered all that much... The idea was, "yeah, they teach that Leftist BS in college, but wait to those kids hit 'the Real World,' then they will straighten out," not realizing that ideas do matter, and if you have two generations or more of college grads almost entirely programmed to be "Progressives," then they and their wacky ideas will slowly, almost imperceptibly, take over the society--starting in the HR department of every corporation. And here we are.
Basically what happened is this: in the early 70s, in the aftermath of the radicalism and chaos of the 60s, the universities were given over to the Left under the assumption that they can't really cause any trouble there. Better those radicals be working on a PhD than building bombs, was the idea. Wrongo, and catastrophically so, it turned out. The Left's "long march through the institutions" started with academia, and now we are forced to deal with the results.
The academy is the fountainhead of the culture.
"The academy is the fountainhead of our culture" huh? Well friend, hate to tell you but that our "fountainhead" has been spewing raw sewage for a generation or more. You need to get informed.
That's what I meant.
It seems you need to read more so to get biff's reference.
True. Paulo Freire’s Maoist child education notions are the schoolteacher’s Bible. Francis Fukuyama-minded complacency made the Classical liberals underestimate its reach and breadth.