Watersheds

If one buys the argument that history is like a pendulum swinging, then university political correctness and mind control intimidation is swinging the other way. This is an uncontrollable process. Gravity pulls things despite what university types will try do. The inevitable weight of history will drag us all down to a basic level of respect for facts, and the scientific process. If the whole denigration process took 40 years to get where we are today, it will probably take another 40 years to get back to basic university education.

Other factors are at work, also. Today’s fascination with Harvard education is balanced by times past when Notre Dame was the preferred education university for young men. And too many public universities, especially in the engineer and business areas, are succeeding quite well. Our future leaders may come from American “public” universities.

In the interim, these most terribly “educated” young people will have to be themselves, and sort out how they have been disadvantaged. The balance between the liberal arts and the engineering disciplines should be interesting to sort out. At least the professional engineers have their own professional engineering tests and certifications. I look forward to something similar for the softer liberal arts so we can better trust something as basic as a media “report”.

One of the main differences between the east and the west is our information and media, and our trust in the same. Assuming we in the west still believe in our way of life for our families and grandchildren, then many old timers will have to be rolled back into the idea that there are things worth defending, as in fighting for. This may be difficult for them since a way of life was pretty much handed to them on a plate. But now the barbarians are at the gates in the old time talk, and the discussion of just what is important comes up again. None of this is taught much in the universities I think. We just have to figure it out.