I think cutting funding will help the problem but I agree with your general point. Ironically, it's similar to a criticism I've made of the left: don't just purge, 'dismantle', and trust that your radical and untested looniness will somehow make everything better. BUILD stuff! If you want to live in a socialist society, buy a bunch of la…
I think cutting funding will help the problem but I agree with your general point. Ironically, it's similar to a criticism I've made of the left: don't just purge, 'dismantle', and trust that your radical and untested looniness will somehow make everything better. BUILD stuff! If you want to live in a socialist society, buy a bunch of land and be socialist (see below)! If you want to empower women, start a female-centered corporation, rather than taking over mine. If you want to increase the representation of black people in elite colleges, improve black K-12 education. Quotas and speech codes and bullying are easy and emotionally satisfying but they solve nothing. The left is terrible at building things, probably because they don't have any business owners (or immigrants, or veterans, or... ) in their ranks.
Alternately, while I do want trillions of dollars to stop flowing out of Arkadelphia, AK and Wilkes-Barre, PA in order to outfit luxurious student gyms and segregated dorms on the Stanford or Berkeley campuses, that won't fix the problem. To heal academia you need to create structures and institutions which reflect your values. To heal the practice of therapy you need to train working therapists in the language of virtue and discipline. To heal K-12 education you have to create not just schools which reflect your worldview (which they've done) but teacher's colleges and curriculum and credentialing organizations. The right is good at building certain things, but public institutions aren't among them.
Buil, build, build. It's hard and it's risky but it's ultimately the only reason humans exist, I think, and it's incredibly fulfilling. That and raising children. And writing.
I think cutting funding will help the problem but I agree with your general point. Ironically, it's similar to a criticism I've made of the left: don't just purge, 'dismantle', and trust that your radical and untested looniness will somehow make everything better. BUILD stuff! If you want to live in a socialist society, buy a bunch of land and be socialist (see below)! If you want to empower women, start a female-centered corporation, rather than taking over mine. If you want to increase the representation of black people in elite colleges, improve black K-12 education. Quotas and speech codes and bullying are easy and emotionally satisfying but they solve nothing. The left is terrible at building things, probably because they don't have any business owners (or immigrants, or veterans, or... ) in their ranks.
Alternately, while I do want trillions of dollars to stop flowing out of Arkadelphia, AK and Wilkes-Barre, PA in order to outfit luxurious student gyms and segregated dorms on the Stanford or Berkeley campuses, that won't fix the problem. To heal academia you need to create structures and institutions which reflect your values. To heal the practice of therapy you need to train working therapists in the language of virtue and discipline. To heal K-12 education you have to create not just schools which reflect your worldview (which they've done) but teacher's colleges and curriculum and credentialing organizations. The right is good at building certain things, but public institutions aren't among them.
Buil, build, build. It's hard and it's risky but it's ultimately the only reason humans exist, I think, and it's incredibly fulfilling. That and raising children. And writing.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/towards-a-democratic-socialism