HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

Unfortunate truth from Jeremy Sammut:

The breeding ground of the new intolerance is, of course, the universities, through which the Left has long marched and captured since the 1970s. Humanities academics across all fields present themselves as champions of diversity in everything from race to gender. But the vast majority have no time for the kind of diversity that really matters in a democratic society — political diversity.
They also like to think of themselves as pluralistic, and as critical and reflective thinkers open to new and challenging ideas. But in these circles, daring to think for oneself, to question the prevailing groupthink, is a recipe for alienation and marginalisation. The political is personal. Deviation from the charmed circled of allegedly enlightened opinion is punished with non-person status — with social and professional death.

Having experienced this first hand and with friends and colleagues facing the same zeitgeist, I would concur most emphatically,

But the decision we all face at this point is to either whinge, moan and thrash about or to move on and make the best of our circumstances by reconstructing an imaginative/intellectual ecology that thrives on open discussion, polite dissension and most importantly logic. I for one favour the latter irrespective of how spiteful and vindictive the left is towards those who differ from their groupthink
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There appears to be some movement towards just such a conservative resurgence, a reawakening that I hope, trust and pray is real and not merely the dying spasms of an emaciated warrior.