'Educated' fools = barbarians

Unfortunately academia has become the rock under which the ideologues are hiding from the light.
Once again I invoke the spectre of Gramsci and his 'long march through the institutions' as the person and dystopian vision behind the dramatic decline in sholarship and the concomitant increase in propaganda being forced down children's throats in the name of education.

From David Thompson:

Sarah Knopp, a teacher, Marxist and Occupier, tells us she wants to peddle the “enlightenment” of communism to the children in her care. Because when they believe as she does – and only as she does – then they’ll be “critical thinkers.” Then they’ll be “emancipated.” Just like her. The second speaker, Megan Behrent, merely intends to subvert the proprieties of the classroom in order to propagate her own communist politics at someone else’s expense. The preferences of parents, students and those who her pay her salary are to be circumvented in the name of “social justice.” Again, the students in her care will be “thinking for themselves” when they think and act “radically,” i.e., just like her.
 

From the American campuses:

Resistance requires a sense that there is something worth defending. But decades of dumbed-down education have produced people with no sense of the importance of a moral framework within which freedom and civil discourse can flourish. Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. Disruptive activists indulge their egos in the name of idealism and others cave rather than fight.

It’s not just academics who won’t defend decency. Trustees could fire college presidents who cave in to storm-trooper tactics. Donors could stop donating to institutions that have sold out their principles to appease the campus barbarians. But when nobody is willing to defend civilized standards, the barbarians win.

Whether on college campuses or among nations on the world stage, if the battle comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are bound to win.

Little wooden people

What John Ellis thinks of the 'special courses' at university such as gender studies, peace studies, heteropatriachal studies, etc:

Just as Pinocchio went off to school with high hopes, only to be waylaid by J. Worthington Foulfellow, minority students are met on the way to campus by hard-left radicals who claim to have the interests of the newcomers at heart but in reality prey on them to advance their own selfish interests. Of course, what black students need is the same solid traditional education that had raised Irish, Italians, and Jews to full equality. But that would not serve the campus radicals’ purpose. Disaffected radicals wanted to swell the ranks of the disaffected, not the ranks of the cheerfully upward mobile. Genuine progress for minority students would mean their joining and thus strengthening the mainstream of American society - the mainstream that campus radicals loathe.
 

The same Gramscian ideology is being fed to our Australian students. As a holder of four tertiary Qualifications, a teacher and a lecturer for more than a decade, I would counsel young people now to either get a job and work their way up, learn a trade (something useful) or if needs be go to university only if it is for engineering, medicine or architecture.
The university's have become recruiting grounds for the disaffected, the rebellious and the anarchists.
Avoid them to become a culture builder rather than a destroyer.

Wilting before the barbarians

More Wisdom from the pen of Thomas Sowell:

Resistance requires a sense that there is something worth defending. But decades of dumbed-down education have produced people with no sense of the importance of a moral framework within which freedom and civil discourse can flourish. Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. Disruptive activists indulge their egos in the name of idealism and others cave rather than fight.

It’s not just academics who won’t defend decency. Trustees could fire college presidents who cave in to storm-trooper tactics. Donors could stop donating to institutions that have sold out their principles to appease the campus barbarians. But when nobody is willing to defend civilized standards, the barbarians win.

Whether on college campuses or among nations on the world stage, if the battle comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are bound to win.

Godwin's law

I believe that the genesis of Rudd's Abbott, Abbott, Abbott, meme began here:

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.~Adolph Hitler

Divorced, I wish

I don't like the idea of divorce and I never take it lightly when it does occur especially between friends and/or colleagues, but in this case it raises a well earned laugh.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT


Dear Australian Laborites, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Gillard, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest
election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many
years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of Australia cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all,
so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our
own way

Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion.
That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it
should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both
sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the ACTU, the
Fabian Society and every member of Emily's List. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms,
the cops and the military. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and
biodiesel. You can keep the ABC left wingers (particularly Kerry O'Brien) and Bob Brown. You are
however, responsible for finding an electric vehicle big enough to move all of them.

We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Woolworths and the
Stock Exchange. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, dole bludgers, homeless, homeboys,
hippies, druggies and boat people. We'll keep the budgie smuggling, bike riding, volunteer firemen and
lifesavers, greedy CEOs and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and the churches and give you SBS and the
Greens.

You can make peace with Iran, Palestine and the Taliban and we'll retain the right to stand up
and fight when threatened. You can have the greenies and war protesters. When our allies or our way of
life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism,
political correctness and Penny Wong. You can also have the U.N. But wewill no longer be paying the bill.

We'll keep the 4WDs, Utes and V8s. You can take every hybrid hatchback you can find.

We'll keep "Waltzing Matilda" and our National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to keep in tune
with Peter Garrett as he sings "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya", "We Are The
World" and his recent big solo hit "Beds and Batts are Burning".

We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best
shot. Since it so often offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded conservative
Australians and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer
which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
John Wall
Australian Law Student

P.S. Also, please take Lindsey Tanner, Wayne Swan, Alan Griffin, John Faulkner, Kevin Rudd and
Jenny Macklin with you.

P. P. S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.

Church of the Three Monkeys II

I read the blogs, facebook and various other sites and see that many (obviously dysfunctional) people are still supporting Australia's most corrupt, inefficient and mendacious government for generations.
What does it take for these people to reject such corruption? Plus, unfortunately some of these morons claim to be Christian to boot.
How can the latter, in good conscience defend the current government given the unbiblical and downright disgusting behaviours evidenced over the past 6 years?
Either these people are illiterate, deceivers, they do not care, or they have no brains.
Economically this article should sprinkle their self deception with a little doubt.
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/smith/2013/09/a-surplus-of-black-holes

The new Sideshow Bob

When first directed (in a blog) to reading Bob Ellis's blog; 'Table Talk', I was incensed that someone could write such bald-faced lies and expect to get away with it. In fact at one point I commented that Tony Abbott should personally sue the b%&#@*!d because of the blatant, slimy slander that 'Table Talk' promoted.

 
Ever since that first encounter some foul compulsion draws me back intermittently, (perhaps anthropologically?), to pick over the entrails of the sewer-mind that this Ellis turd possesses, just to try and make some sense of his absurdity's and extreme self-delusions. After each vigilant excursion my response thereafter was to immediately try and cleanse my mind of the grime that unfortunately attaches itself to the imagination when confronted with materiel of this nature.

 
Then, after a while I began to realise that another more mystifying reaction was beginning to assert itself. I found myself increasingly enveloped by a strange, almost reluctant, emerging compassion. I was amazed...perhaps it is because this fellow is so obviously unhinged that even the most belligerent lefties could not take his bloviating seriously.

 
I began to sense that these petulant scribbling’s were the result of a damaged psyche, that this poor fool had, at some time in the past tipped over the edge and has plunged down through all 9 circles of Dante's inferno and was being tortured every moment of every day after opening his eyes in the morning, and thus I cannot help but feel sorry for the wretch.