One factor that led to the state of affairs we find ourselves in has frustrated me for many decades now. The right ceded academia for a long time due to the old canard, "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach." Basically, why teach econ when you can potentially make exponentially more money with a career in econ? After all, that's keeping with their principles.
Also, due to their ideology being less profit focused, more leftists have been far more enthusiastic about trading a potentially lucrative career for a less lucrative opportunity to indoctrinate the minds of the young and take an active part in the "Long March the institutions." Once again, that's keeping with their principles.
Unfortunately, things are so far gone in academia that even if conservatives were to opt for more teaching roles in an attempt to lessen the influence of the left, they would find themselves hard pressed to secure those positions because leftists are now largely in charge of the hiring process as well as the rest of academic administration. So I'm unsure if universities in the United States, as they currently exist, can be saved. Maybe the best we can hope for is the emergence of a skill-based approach to hiring as a move away from the credentialism that has come to dominate our society, as well as more emphasis on the trades. That still leaves professions such as doctors and lawyers being unduly influenced by leftists during their education, but we have to start somewhere.
The left wants to control others & makes sacrifices to manipulate & control others, particularly the young.
It's little wonder that the side which is willing to make greater sacrifices to win, ends up gaining cumulative advantages & power. Reality is not on their side, and yet they've managed to totally take over most institutions just because they want it more.
The Right and the Left seek material profit and psychic profit, as all humans do. The Right, however, seeks different kinds of psychic profit from different sources than the Left, and are significantly more averse to sustained deception as a means to derive psychic profit.
Academia has used government market manipulation to massively increase earnings for administrators and commissars. Virtually all of the increases in tuition have been routed to higher salaries for leftist indoctrinators. These people actually make inconceivable bank for programming children to become leftist foot soldiers.
Agreed, but it wasn't always that way, hence the reason why those who prioritized earning potential in the past tended to avoid academia and go into the private sector. Now there is an enormous financial incentive to get into administrative positions in universities, but now that the left has captured those institutions, anyone on the right who wants to maximize their earning potential almost has no choice but the private sector, since they would be filtered out from those lucrative positions that are now available.
If enough people on the right hadn't surrendered academia to the left back in the '60s and '70s, opting to forgo private sector jobs, the long march through the institutions would have faced a much more uphill battle. The left was smart enough to realize that capturing the youth was the key to capturing all the other institutions, and they were dedicated to the idea enough to follow through on it. Unfortunately, those of us on the right always assumed that " it doesn't matter, because they'll straighten out once they hit the real world."
But, while it's important to understand how we got here, we need to start focusing on solutions. It is one hell of a hole we have to dig ourselves out after several decades of sticking out heads in the sand and assuming it would all work itself out.
One factor that led to the state of affairs we find ourselves in has frustrated me for many decades now. The right ceded academia for a long time due to the old canard, "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach." Basically, why teach econ when you can potentially make exponentially more money with a career in econ? After all, that's keeping with their principles.
Also, due to their ideology being less profit focused, more leftists have been far more enthusiastic about trading a potentially lucrative career for a less lucrative opportunity to indoctrinate the minds of the young and take an active part in the "Long March the institutions." Once again, that's keeping with their principles.
Unfortunately, things are so far gone in academia that even if conservatives were to opt for more teaching roles in an attempt to lessen the influence of the left, they would find themselves hard pressed to secure those positions because leftists are now largely in charge of the hiring process as well as the rest of academic administration. So I'm unsure if universities in the United States, as they currently exist, can be saved. Maybe the best we can hope for is the emergence of a skill-based approach to hiring as a move away from the credentialism that has come to dominate our society, as well as more emphasis on the trades. That still leaves professions such as doctors and lawyers being unduly influenced by leftists during their education, but we have to start somewhere.
The right wants to make money & live a good life.
The left wants to control others & makes sacrifices to manipulate & control others, particularly the young.
It's little wonder that the side which is willing to make greater sacrifices to win, ends up gaining cumulative advantages & power. Reality is not on their side, and yet they've managed to totally take over most institutions just because they want it more.
I don't think that's entirely true.
The Right and the Left seek material profit and psychic profit, as all humans do. The Right, however, seeks different kinds of psychic profit from different sources than the Left, and are significantly more averse to sustained deception as a means to derive psychic profit.
Academia has used government market manipulation to massively increase earnings for administrators and commissars. Virtually all of the increases in tuition have been routed to higher salaries for leftist indoctrinators. These people actually make inconceivable bank for programming children to become leftist foot soldiers.
Agreed, but it wasn't always that way, hence the reason why those who prioritized earning potential in the past tended to avoid academia and go into the private sector. Now there is an enormous financial incentive to get into administrative positions in universities, but now that the left has captured those institutions, anyone on the right who wants to maximize their earning potential almost has no choice but the private sector, since they would be filtered out from those lucrative positions that are now available.
If enough people on the right hadn't surrendered academia to the left back in the '60s and '70s, opting to forgo private sector jobs, the long march through the institutions would have faced a much more uphill battle. The left was smart enough to realize that capturing the youth was the key to capturing all the other institutions, and they were dedicated to the idea enough to follow through on it. Unfortunately, those of us on the right always assumed that " it doesn't matter, because they'll straighten out once they hit the real world."
But, while it's important to understand how we got here, we need to start focusing on solutions. It is one hell of a hole we have to dig ourselves out after several decades of sticking out heads in the sand and assuming it would all work itself out.