Buffalo wrote:Have you ever paused to consider why almost all institutions of higher learning (and all prestigious institutions of higher learning) are so gosh durned liberal?
I'll let you mull that one over for a while.
The answer is well understood, and has to do primarily with the mass exodus of the New Left from the streets, community organizing groups, and radical campus activism into the faculty and administration of American universities themselves. This was the "Long March through the institutions" that followed the general Gramscian approach to the infiltration and subversion of the very institutions of society the Left wishes to destroy. But unlike traditional Marxism, the Cultural Marxist point is not to destroy them in any direct manner, but to
become them.
The strategy has been vastly successful. Once in positions of dominance in college and university administration and tenured faculty, an aggressive freezing out and closing of hiring and tenure to any conservative/libertarian academic, if it became known that he/she was such (including the long and vaunted tradition of moral blackballing and defamation known as "political correctness) became standard practice throughout American academia. This has been far too well documented elsewhere to go over it here in any depth.
I know where Buffalo wants to go with his adolescent polemic here, but it wont hold the proverbial water. The Left, in general, has, for two centuries, defined a revolt and animus toward the classical liberal arts tradition of critical thought and dispassionate reasoning in the search for truth, or its closest approximation, depending upon the subject of study.
You may call the Left the Anointed, the Olympians, the New Class, or whatever you wish, but one could never do worse than to simply call them what they represent to the human condition, intellectually and morally.
Morlocks.