Oh, the Humanities!

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Scheduling the Revolution

David Strom:

In the midst of all the exciting violence, another more prosaic reality lies underneath. 

The revolution is boring without the violence. 

Can you imagine the sheer tedium of having your revolutionary activity scheduled? 

Waking up to "solidary statements," going to drum circles, listening to people who describe themselves as "Latinx" whinge for Hamas. A "teach-in," something called "Maqluba session" (I didn't look it up, because, why would I?). 

They have "abolition letter writing," which strikes me as a uniquely useless activity. Writing to whom? Can these students even write? 

A "water ritual?" These are Princeton students? 

At Stanford, we learn what a "People's University" is, and it looks like a place that is ideal for the next generation of tech geeks. When you set up your own curriculum it appears that comic books are the main reading. At least you can thrift. 

I wonder if a degree from a "People's University" is a ticket to a high-powered job or to a great graduate degree.

At Cornell you can learn the wonders of revolutionary architecture. Apparently the architecture at Cornell is repressive, since it includes an HVAC system and indoor plumbing. 

Best live in a tent. The architecture school is donating one."

Universities and the repressive [police state could end this immediately, if they wanted to. Set a deadline, say, 2:00 PM this afternoon, after which any remaining “campers” would be arrested and sorted: students to be immediately expelled and barred from ever reapplying; participating professors and instructors fired; illegal aliens turned over to I.C.E. and held for deportation, non-students jailed, and any and all arrestees, regardless of status, barred from benefitting from Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.

Of course, none of that will happen, but at least let concerned citizens take it on themselves to rid their campuses of these people, like so: