Why you never want to send your kid to the Ivies:

From this week's Princeton Alumni Weekly:

"With the publication of her book, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism (Cambridge University Press,) Sarah Conly '75 finds herself in an unusual position: a philosopher arguing about questions with a direct impact on current public policy."

They salivate over stuff like this at Disneyland.

"The more time I spent out of academics," she says, "the more I thought [about] the classical philosophical picture of humans as rational agents who typically see what they want to do and choose the right act in order to reach their ends-- [I realized] that picture was just wrong."

This is what passes for argument in the Ivies: "that picture was just wrong." Hey, I'm convinced.

Conclusion: we need inbred Ivy Emperors to set us all straight at the point of a gun. "In the nation's service."

It's for our own good.

You think the Obamas are exceptions? The Ivies pump out these megalomaniac twits by the wagonload, and have for decades.

Quote from the new incoming president of Princeton:

"I think some of the ways of talking about outcomes [in higher education] are counterproductive. I don't think a standardized test score is an outcome of a liberal arts education. It's an artificial measurement. But how much somebody engages in civic service after they go through a liberal-arts education -- that does matter."

T-Shirt Opportunity: "People Who Matter"

His name is Eisgruber; it rhymes with Schicklegruber. But his family fled the Nazis.

He's been a lifelong academic.

He's been a little all over the political spectrum, but ended up a fervent Obama supporter.

And for the far side of $200,000+, you can send your kid to Disneyland to hear four years of incessant Capitalism bashing. What a sweet, sweet deal!

Other gems from this week's PAW: Elena Kagan '81s Sr Thesis:
"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933"

I can't wait to see what next week's PAW brings...

Post 1

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 5:01am

I had a classmate who attended Harvard and swore it was among her worst life decisions. She said the professors did not care about their students. That detriment plus the expense created much stress for no good cause. She completed the program and graduated with a degree in neurology but never really used it long-term. She now works from home translating court documents between English and Spanish so she can have the flexibility needed as a mother. Alas, some of the Harvard mentality seems to have infiltrated her soul, as she found my euphemism "communi(s)ty service" quite "inflammatory" and offensive.

On a positive note, the reviews of the Conly book on Amazon mostly rip the book to shreds which gives me hope for our future.

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 5/14, 5:06am)

Post 2

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 9:25am

Luke:

"Communisty service."

Ha! That alone is worth the price of admission.

Good one.

regards,
Fred

Post 3

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:08am

USSC Justice Kagan's Sr Thesis is online here:

http://infidelsarecool.com/elena-kagan-thesis.pdf

Her thesis concludes with the following lament:

"Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP[Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered.

The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America.

Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one's fellows[the Communists in the local left wing turf war]than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe[capitalism]. Yet if 'the history of Local New York shows anything, it- is�that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."

The last two Obama nominees to the USSC were carbon copy Princeton radical feminists. The woman who whispers to him on the pillow at night is a carbon copy Princeton radical feminist.

"The story is sad?" Really? I rejoice at every failing of the Communist and Socialist parties to 'change' America. And this USSC justice finds that story 'sad?'

Do not for a second ever misunderstand what the left is talking about when they use the word 'change.'

regards,
Fred

Post 4

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:41pm

Is it now considered "unAmerican" to be happy when Socialists and Communists crap the bed in what used to be a free America?

Is it too early to ponder the process of De-Socialization of America?

These radicals have had a nearly unimpeded hundred year head start at over-running our schools, our universities, our institutions of government.

So how is America 'de-loused?' How do these radicals get laughed back to the fringe oblivion they deserve in this free nation?

They are in the White House. They are on the USSC. They are running our universities, our ministries of disinformation -- sorry, I mean news organizations. They are in Congress.

They are as thick as maggots on a carcass.

Where's the Clorox for this infestation?

regards,
Fred

Post 5

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 12:08am

I have this Fred-vision. A daydream really. You have mentioned an analogy of Obama with his foot on the pedal driving the bus over the fiscal cliff.
Would be nice if he and all the lefties were on a real bus driving over a real cliff....

Post 6

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 4:41pm