The Atlantic: The College-Admissions Merit Myth
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The article is beyond bad, there’s no actual argument aside from “families use resources!” And “rooming with darkies spreads diversity!”
He unintentionally wrote one of the best articles justifying the abolition of the American education system. The thrust is that it is a bloated mess of competing interest groups; none of which are concerned with providing an education necessary to fill the essential roles of a functioning civilization. Socrates was sentenced to death for less.
I now realize that socrates was the villain in that story, the polity was correct in killing him, and the only good thing he did was voluntarily drink the hemlock without making a big deal about it.
He didn't support his wife and children, he agitated for no reason other than to show off how smart he was, and he promoted his stupid ideas to impressionable young adults. He was basically ancient greek karl marx.
Sounds more like Ben Shapiro, and not in a good way. Steven Crowder did it better, and gave us the Change My Mind meme.
Anyway, is all that true about Socrates not supporting his wife and kids?
Well it is the Atlantic….. no surprise
I got a full ride plus some through undergrad based on merit. I graduated with a 3.99. Up until then I'd only ever had one grade that wasn't an A and that's because I took a writing class with a leftist cat lady for a professor
The Atlantic was a fine publication for a long time, but is now a failed leftist platform from the lecturns of empty academic platitudes delivered by the wealthiest of the elite.
I believe Lauren Jobs of widowed Apple fame is the money behind the Atlantic now. Journalism weeps.
When?
I think we should have a ban list of propaganda sites like the Atlantic. They sow division and consume bandwidth with what is obviously stories meant to incite reaction. They are sticking a thumb to your nose for clicks.
BuzzFeed, Atlantic, Vox, Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, and on and on are just there to make those that follow them feel empowered and those that ridicule them disheartened.
Atlantic don't believe their stories are propaganda or trolling, they actually believe it wholeheartedly. Like how John Stewart actually believes he's still the sane guy, when really he's the next Olbermann.
It's a window into their insanity. How do you even begin to understand a crazy person? Well, here's another 30 pages of manifesto from the Atlantic explaining in depth their Always-Sunny wall of conspiracy.
But I worry about ahaus going too deep. Should be read in moderation just to laugh at and mock.
The Atlantic has been utter crap for a long time. Does anyone still actually read it. All I ever see is people making fun of headlines no one ever talks about what's actually in the articles. I mean everyone knows it's full of BS and it seems more elitist "look at me I read The Atlantic" than any really caring about what it says.