The cross-campus coming-out party for the Osama Bin Laden generation this week was a splash of cold water on the face of the nation. Much as the COVID-19 pandemic alerted parents to the rot pervading K-12 education, scenes from Columbia University, UCLA, and other elite campuses have awakened the public to the perverse priorities of higher education. Political activism supplanted the pursuit of truth as the telos of our university system years ago, but the public was largely unaware of this development. It’s safe to say they are now.
And thanks to numerous “man on the street” interviews with student activists that have gone viral in recent days, the public is now also aware of the intellectual mediocrity roaming our most hallowed halls of education. The very individuals who participated in the idiotic demonstrations this week are destined to become the next generation of bosses in government and industry by virtue of the name on their degrees. The same people who waved banners that read “Divest From Queer Death Without Exception,” which is a statement of such ignorance that it momentarily stupifies the observer, are slated to be in charge of the economy as it attempts to fend off China for the remainder of the 21st century.
