Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you may have noticed that Universities (especially the super wealthy ones) have been infiltrated by various special interests.
One especially violent ideology wreaking havoc on these institutions is the Pro-Palestinian/Pro-Hamas/Antisemitic/Anti-Israel movement.
One would think that Historic Educational Establishments would be prepared to handle the excitability of its students. However, we are discovering that advocates for these ideologies have been heavily investing in these elite and powerful “Western Universities” for many decades.
The primary result is a compromised leadership that both feels beholden to these donors and fearful of losing the economic gifts they offer.
The secondary result is a teaching faculty that reflects several decades of this influence, having been hired for their ideological beliefs or their connections, so that they are standing with the students they should be guiding, advising and mentoring.
The third result is not a problem, unless the first two occur. This would be heavy external funding and organizational support of student advocacy groups, which (under normal circumstances) are important as they reflect both the interests of some students as well as the diversity of our nation and the world.
Columbia University, however, is Screwing Up Royally!
It is not at all surprising that the educationally elite youth of Western Nations are being cluelessly drafted into an ideological war by organized groups they know nothing about. If you’re honest, and you’ve ever attended a University, you know the vulnerabilities of these students. They are…
Economically privileged (spoiled and bored)
Dangerously naive (rarely having been held accountable or faced real life)
Lacking in real life experience (most have been “overscheduled” their entire, pampered lifetime)
Naturally arrogant (it’s amazing how much smarter Mom & Dad get over the next few years)
Hyper-excitable (that’s self-explanatory)
Pumped up on a flood of natural hormones (biological reality)
Filled with endless energy (what I wouldn’t give for their mitochondria!)
Easily swayed, manipulated, and fooled (it takes time and experience to become wise)
Like the brainwashed Hitler Youth who joined in the brutalizing, raping, pillaging, kidnapping, burning and destruction of Jewish communities on November 9-10, 1938…
Like the brainwashed young men trained by Hamas/Gaza’s Brutal Dictatorship who massacred, raped and tormented everyone in their path on October 7th, 2023…
Like the brainwashed “Little Generals” of Mao’s Revolution, who marauded through China during the summer of 1966, ransacking and looting homes and staging public “struggle sessions” in which victims were savagely beaten, tortured and sometimes killed…
The youth of today are not prepared to protect themselves!
Not from the slick propaganda, charismatic leaders, seductive messaging, glamorous revolutionary fiction, unrealistic and sensational promises, lofty goals that excite the ego, the offering of purpose and meaning in one’s life, and all the varied hype, pomp and circumstance of mass movements and gatherings.
The youth go to University in search of a goal, a purpose, and direction in life. They are there, at great cost to themselves or their parents, to be molded, shaped, informed and taught truths about the world by professors who are presented to them as trustworthy sources of expert opinion, free from personal bias and malignant intent.
They are completely vulnerable to those seeking to harness them for their own purposes, and we must not leave them stranded and afloat in the sea without a rudder or a safe wind behind their sail. That’s what parents, grandparents, decent people of all sorts, and the staff of Universities are tasked with doing. It’s our responsibility.
In times like these — those in positions of power and decision making will either weather the storm with calm, maturity and wisdom, or they will capitulate.
Which is what Columbia University has just done by announcing they will conduct the rest of the year’s classes online.
I’m only guessing at the excuses they’ll give, such as:
The campus is viewed as too chaotic and dangerous for students.
Perhaps misbehaving faculty (who will hopefully be fired) were refusing to teach?
Perhaps other faculty (Jewish professors?) found it impossible and/or literally unsafe to do so?
The point I want to make today, is that NONE of these are acceptable reasons to cave, collapse, give in, surrender, and essentially model giving in to what amounts to terrorism.
They have just taught every single young person in the West, and especially their own students, their staff and faculty, the people who live around the University, the parents of current and future students, and THE ENEMIES OF US ALL, that the strategies, tactics, and violent actions of the Pro-Palestinian/Pro-Hamas/Antisemitic/Anti-Israel movement — work.
I have more thoughts on “terrorism” that I’ll offer up soon.
Until then, remember…
Western Civilization is not collapsing.
Western Civilization is being collapsed.
This is part of a truly evil, global totalitarian agenda. What’s happening is not normal or healthy. And it can & must be, stood up to, called out, explained, and stopped.